Non-Standard Work, Self-Employment and Precariousness
Author: Valeria Pulignano
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 2889667383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Valeria Pulignano
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 2889667383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1788118839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment to challenge this broad and erroneous perception.
Author: Judy Fudge
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper begins by examining the stereotype of self-employment and how it is distinguished from employment in order to develop a more complex and accurate typology of subordination and autonomy in employment relationships. The next section turns to the ILO, and traces its approach to self-employment. Since 1990, the ILO has attempted to fashion an entente between employees' representatives, employers' representatives, and governments around the scope of employment protection and the coverage of self-employed workers. The next section begins the case study and presents some of the recent Canadian data on self-employment, and examines it along the dimensions of subordination and dependency identified in the typology. It also explores the extent to which women's self-employment is precarious, and how women's self-employment is shaped by their responsibility for domestic labour. The scope of employment in labour-related law and legislation in the common-law jurisdictions in Canada is mapped in the next section, and it is compared to the reality of women's self-employment. A key question is whether the scope of legal protection of employment contributes to the precarious nature of self-employment for women. The paper concludes by considering what effect the ILO's approach is likely to have on access to labour and social protection for self-employed women in Canada. Women's self-employment demonstrates the need to go beyond employment to consider self-employment and unpaid caring labour in order to develop policies and laws that promote women's equality.
Author: Wieteke Conen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1788115031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it has become a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe.
Author: Judy Fudge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2006-04-26
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1847312152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work - work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labour law and women's work explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, and evaluates the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of legal regulation.The book provides a comparative perspective by furnishing case studies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Quebec, Sweden, the UK, and the US, as well as the international and supranational context through essays that focus on the IMF, the ILO, and the EU. Common themes and concepts thread throughout the essays, which grapple with the legal and public policy challenges posed by women's precarious work.
Author: Max Koch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 113726716X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative consequences of this development, this volume also discusses the evidence for a new and socially inclusive European employment standard.
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780773529618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Precarious Employment' explores the nature and dynamics of precarious employment in contemporary Canada.
Author: Leah F. Vosko
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1135284717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. This collection aims to yield new ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity.
Author: Wieteke Conen
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781788115025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed - and even reversed in some countries - and the prospect of 'being your own boss' is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe. Bringing together leading international experts in the field, this book provides insight into key issues surrounding self-employment from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Covering existing theory and context, providing empirical results of studies into self-employment and precarious work from across Europe, and discussion of the implications of this research, it offers key insights into future avenues for research. Students of European studies and social policy, as well as policy makers and researchers with a particular interest in employment, self-employment and precarious work across Europe, will find the data and policy ideas presented in this book an invaluable read.