Self-Employment as Precarious Work

Edited by Wieteke Conen, Senior Researcher, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam and Joop Schippers, Professor of Labour Economics, Universiteit Utrecht, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance and Affiliated Researcher, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the Netherlands

• Contents:Preface1. Self-Employment: Between Freedom and InsecurityWieteke Conen and Joop SchippersPART I Do we have to worry about the ‘new self-employed’? Theory and Context2. Labour Market Flexibility, Self-Employment and PrecariousnessJoop Schippers3. Social Protection for the Self-Employed: an EU Legal PerspectiveHanneke Bennaars4. Self-Employment, Pensions and the Risk of Poverty in Old AgeUwe FachingerPART II Self-Employment and Precarious Work in Europe: Empirical Results5. Self-Employment: Independent ‘Enterprise’, or Precarious Low-skilled Work? The case of the UKNigel Meager6. Micro-Entrepreneurship and Changing Contours of Work: Towards Precarious Work Relations? Empirical Findings from AustriaDieter Bögenhold, Andrea Klinglmair, Zulaicha Parastuty and Florian Kandutsch7. Precariousness and Social Risks among Solo Self-Employed in Germany and The NetherlandsWieteke Conen and Maarten Debets8. Between Precariousness and Freedom: the Ambivalent Condition of Independent Professionals in ItalyPaolo Borghi and Annalisa Murgia9. Bogus Self-Employment in SwedenDominique Anxo and Thomas Ericson 10. Precariousness among Older Self-Employed Workers in EuropeWieteke Conen11. Migrant Self-Employment in Germany: On the Risks, Characteristics and Determinants of Precarious WorkStefan Berwing, Andrew Isaak and René LeichtPART III Implications and Future Research Agenda12. The Matter of Representation: Precarious Self-Employment and Interest OrganisationsGiedo Jansen and Roderick Sluiter13. The ‘New’ Self-Employed and Hybrid Forms of Employment: Challenges for Social Policies in EuropeKarin Schulze Buschoff14. Between Freedom and Insecurity: Future ChallengesJoop Schippers and Wieteke ConenIndex

‘The reviewed book represents a significant enrichment of the discussion on the topic of precarious self-employment. It is therefore recommended to a wide range of readers, especially to those wishing to gain insight and advance their knowledge in this field, while also being particularly relevant for researchers and policy makers.’