Non-Standard Employment in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction: Changing Employment Standards in a Crisis-Ridden Europe

   1. Introduction: Changing Employment Standards in a Crisis-Ridden Europe

      • Martin Fritz, Max Koch

      Pages 1-9

3. Theoretical, Economic and Political Background

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. A Conceptual Approach of the Destandardization of Employment in Europe since the 1970s

      • Jean-Claude Barbier

      Pages 13-28

   3. Employment Standards in Transition: From Fordism to Finance-Driven Capitalism

      • Max Koch

      Pages 29-45

   4. Non-Standard Employment and European Union Employment Regulation

      • Julia S. O’Connor

      Pages 46-63

4. Country Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The Expansion of Temporary Employment in Spain (1984–2010): Neither Socially Fair nor Economically Productive

      • Jorge Sola, Luis Enrique Alonso, Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez, Rafael Ibáñez Rojo

      Pages 67-83

   3. ‘Flexicurity’ through Normalization? Changes in Scope, Composition and Conditions of Temporary Employment in Croatia

      • Teo Matković

      Pages 84-102

   4. Destandardization of Employment in the UK: Issues, Politics and Policy Reinvention

      • Lefteris Kretsos, Miguel Martínez Lucio

      Pages 103-116

   5. Non-Standard Employment in Poland: Option or Necessity?

      • Anna Buchner-Jeziorska

      Pages 117-131

   6. Revival of the ‘German Model’? Destandardization and the New Labour Market Regime

      • Hajo Holst, Klaus Dörre

      Pages 132-149

   7. Non-Standard Employment and Perceptions of Job Characteristics and Labour Market Situation: An Intra-Nordic Comparison

      • Bengt Furåker

      Pages 150-166

5. Comparative Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Should We Care about Part-Time Work from a Poverty Perspective? An Analysis of the EU15 Countries

      • Jeroen Horemans, Ive Marx

      Pages 169-189

   3. Temporary Employment and Poverty in the Enlarged European Union: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis

      • Wim Van Lancker

      Pages 190-208

   4. Non-Standard Employment and Anomie in the EU

      • Martin Fritz

      Pages 209-228

   5. Conclusion: Non-Standard Employment: Concept, Empirical Results and Policy Implications

      • Max Koch, Martin Fritz

      Pages 229-241

6. Back Matter

   Pages 242-246

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Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative consequences of this development, this volume also discusses the evidence for a new and socially inclusive European employment standard.

• care
• Comparative analysis
• Enlarged European Union
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• labor market
• Marx
• politics
• poverty
• transition
• european union politics

"Provides a rich overview of the development of NSE and its consequences, while giving justice to the diversity of national and socio-demographic contexts. It will be particularly rewarding for readers who would like to familiarise themselves with the topic." - Journal of Social Policy

• Lund University, Sweden

  Max Koch

• GESIS — Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

  Martin Fritz

Luis Enrique Alonso,Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Jean-Claude Barbier, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France Anna Buchner-Jeziorska, University of ?ód?, Poland Klaus Dörre, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Bengt Furåker, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Hajo Holst, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Jeroen Horemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium Rafael Ibáñez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Lefteris Kretsos, University of Greenwich, UK Miguel Martinez Lucio, University of Manchester, UK Ive Marx, Antwerp University, Belgium Teo Matkovi?, University of Zagreb, Croatia Julia S. O'Connor, University of Ulster, UK Jorge Sola, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Wim Van Lancker, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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