Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non-standard work and between self-employment and dependent employment.By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human agency, it focuses not only on how workers at the boundaries between employment and self-employment are affected by social norms and institutions but also on how they can shape them in turn, especially through collective organising. The analysis presents the main findings of the ERC project SHARE - Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Representing self-Employment - a six-year transdisciplinary and multi-method study conducted by combining comparative analysis of labour laws and labour force surveys with a cross-national ethnography carried out in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.By proposing to use ‘Hybrid as Method’, the tensions be