U. Muehlberger

Dependent Self-Employment

Workers on the Border Between Employment and Self-Employment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates work relationships on the border between employment and self-employment. Bringing together economic, sociological and legal research approaches, it analyses why firms deploy dependent self-employed workers, why individuals supply this form of work and by which informal and formal mechanism dependency is created.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-51549-9
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780230515499
• ISBN-10: 0230515495
• Artikelnr.: 22699088

Autorenporträt

ULRIKE MUEHLBERGER is a Lecturer in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria, from where she gained a PhD in Economics. She also holds a PhD in Sociology from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

The Blurring Boundaries between Employment and Self-Employment Work on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment The Institutional Factor: Labour Law and Regulations across Europe The Supply Side: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment The Organizational Governance of Dependent Forms of Self-Employment The Creation of Dependent Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective Conclusions