The Challenges of Self-Employment in Europe

Edited by Renata Semenza and François Pichault

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Abstract: This book aims at explaining the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals across Europe. Despite considerable diversity, the authors observe three strategic models of mobilisation: the provision of services; advocacy, lobbying and the political role; and the extension of collective bargaining. They highlight the new urgent challenges that have emerged including the implementation of universal social protection schemes, active labour market policies likely to support sustainable self-employment, and the renewal of social dialogue through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective representation of project-based professionals.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 9781788118446
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: self-employed professionals in a comparative perspective , pp 1-19

François Pichault and Renata Semenza

Ch 2 New self-employment as a theoretical matter , pp 20-46

Renata Semenza and Anna Mori

Ch 3 Working conditions and needs: results of a European survey , pp 47-76

Anna Soru, Elena Sinibaldi and Cristina Zanni

Ch 4 The place of self-employment in the European context. Evidence from nine country case studies: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom , pp 77-139

Laura Beuker, Paolo Borghi, Marie-Christine Bureau, Antonella Corsani, Bernard Gazier, Alejandro Godino, Bas Koene and Lars Walter

Ch 5 Comparing the national contexts , pp 140-177

Laura Beuker, François Pichault and Frédéric Naedenoen

Ch 6 Continuity and discontinuity in collective representation , pp 178-205

Anna Mori and Bas Koene

Ch 7 Conclusions: perspectives on self-employment in Europe , pp 206-221

Manuela Samek Lodovici, François Pichault and Renata Semenza

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