Dependent Self-Employment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Blurring Boundaries Between Employment and Self-Employment

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   Pages 1-17

3. Work on the Border Between Employment and Self-Employment

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   Pages 18-33

4. The Institutional Factor: Labour Law and Regulations Across Europe

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   Pages 34-45

5. The Supply Side: Identifying Workers on the Border Between Employment and Self-Employment

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   Pages 46-79

6. The Organisational Governance of Dependent Forms of Self-Employment

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   Pages 80-106

7. The Creation of Dependent Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective

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   Pages 107-177

8. Conclusions

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9. Back Matter

   Pages 195-217

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This book investigates work relationships on the border between employment and self-employment. Bringing together economic, sociological and legal research approaches, it analyses why firms deploy dependent self-employed workers, why individuals supply this form of work and by which informal and formal mechanism dependency is created.

• employment
• labour
• labour law
• organization
• organizations
• regulation
• research

• Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

  Ulrike Muehlberger

ULRIKE MUEHLBERGER is a Lecturer in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria, from where she gained a PhD in Economics. She also holds a PhD in Sociology from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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