Neither precarious nor entrepreneur: The subjective experience of hybrid self-employed workers

Annalisa Murgia and Valeria Pulignano
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Annalisa Murgia: Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
Valeria Pulignano: Centre for Sociological Research (CESO), KU Leuven, Belgium

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, vol. 42, issue 4, 1351-1377

Abstract: This article focuses on the ‘hybridity’ of solo self-employment by shedding light on the lived experiences and meanings of the subjects within their institutional and socio-economic contexts. It offers an original perspective to the study of the hybridization of work by linking the subjective and objective conditions underpinning solo self-employed workers. The study found that solo self-employed workers exercise agency over their working lives while facing high levels of insecurity, and that their contextualized experiences are related to the dominant narratives about self-employment. At the same time, however, findings also show that solo self-employed are engaged in (re)-constructing their alternative and dissonant narratives as well.

Keywords: Highly educated workers; hybrid self-employment; solo self-employment; subjectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X19873966

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