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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. Featuring rigorous
empirical research, Dependent Self-Employment moves beyond the
reliance on anecdotal evidence to fill in gaping lacunae in our
understanding of employment. Reporting on the European Working
Conditions Survey of 2015, this impressive book provides a crucial
contribution to our understanding of dependent self-employment in
the 21st century, challenging not only academic perceptions, but
also depictions of work in the media and political discourse. The
authors expertly navigate the 'grey zone' of defining dependent
self-employment, embracing the spectrum of employment relationships
and outlining the limits to the rights and authority of the
dependently self-employed. Bold and comprehensive, this timely book
offers critical insight for researchers at all levels exploring the
nature and distribution of employment in Europe. Given the current
public debates on the platform economy, this book will also prove
useful for practitioners and policy-makers in labour inspectorates,
tax administrations and social security institutions worldwide.
This book critically engages with how formal and informal
mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically,
it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions
are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal
institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship
focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number
of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a
dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and
normative methodologies that view informal institutions and
practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the
authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed
of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other
but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will
appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers,
practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding
of how governance works.
This book critically engages with how formal and informal
mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically,
it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions
are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal
institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship
focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number
of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a
dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and
normative methodologies that view informal institutions and
practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the
authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed
of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other
but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will
appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers,
practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding
of how governance works.
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