Introduction

.

Chapter 1 in Dependent Self-Employment, 2019, pp 1-13 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The first section of this chapter sets the scene by defining what is meant by dependent self-employment, and briefly reviews what have been sometimes very confusing discussions for a lay reader regarding how to define employment relationships existing in this ‘grey zone’ between pure dependent employment and genuine self-employment. Having defined what is being discussed in the book, this introductory chapter then sets out the arguments of the book by reviewing its structure and what will be argued. Part I of the book reviews the theoretical underpinnings of dependent self-employment; Part II provides an extensive cross-national analysis of the extent, distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment, including the job quality and working conditions of workers in this employment relationship; and Part III advances policy by addressing the range of policy approaches and measures available for tackling this phenomenon.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781788118828/chapter01.xhtml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18310_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().