I'm working on self-employed professionals and social security in Germany. I'm interested in how self-employed entrepreneurs make a living and how they think about social security (unemployment insurance, pension insurance, health insurance). Do you know any literature or research on self-employed professionals and social security in Europe (especially qualitative, ethnographic or biographical research)? Thanks in advance!
Dear Frank,
are you interested in "real" self-employed professionals or also in formally autonomous employment relationships, such as ‘semi-dependent’ or ‘quasi-subordinate’ jobs based on fixed-term, project or temporary contracts, and the ‘self-employed/dependent’ or ‘fake-autonomous’ jobs undertaken by self-employed freelances working mainly for one employer?
In the first case I would suggest the works of Sergio Bologna (see for instance http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=50&pos=1&textid=1904&lang=en).
In the second case, I have written some pieces of work that may be interesting for you:
- A. Murgia and E. Armano, (2014) “The precariousnesses of young knowledge workers. A subject-oriented approach”, Special Issue “Precariat”, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, vol. 3, n. 3-4, pp. 486-501.
- A. Murgia and Silvia Gherardi (2012) “By hook or by croock: temporary workers between exploration and exploitation”, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Special Issue on “Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials”, vol. 37, pp. 75-103.
- M. Samek Lodovici and R. Semenza (2012) (eds.) Precarious work and high-skilled youth in Europe, Angeli, Milano.
I hope my answer can help. If you are working on these topics, I would be happy to stay in contact!
Kind regards
Annalisa
Dear Frank
I am afraid that I could not be very helpful to you. I got this reference for USA.
Goetz, S. (2008). Self-Employment in Rural America: The New Economic Reality, in Rural Realities, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp-1-12.
Best regards
Manuel
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