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Title News forms of employment : current problems and future challenges / editors, Jerzy Wratny and Agata Ludera-Ruszel
Published Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer VS, [2020]

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Series Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung - transdisziplinäre Studien, 2509-3274
Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung - transdisziplinäre Studien.
Contents Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Changing Patterns of Work: Implications for Employment Relationship -- New Forms of Employment. A Panoramic View of the Issues -- References -- "The Limits of Expansion of Labour Law to Non-labour Forms of Employment-Comments de lege lata and de lege ferenda" -- 1 The Phenomenon of Dissemination of Non-labour Forms of Employment in a Market Economy -- 2 Expansion of Labour Law to Non-labour Forms of Employment -- 3 Limits of Labour Law Expansion into Non-labour Forms of Employment-Comments de Lege Lata
4 The Limits of Expansion of Labour Law to Non-labour Forms of Employment-Comments de Lege Ferenda -- References -- General Remarks on Flexibility in Employment as the Determinant for Prolonging Working Life of Older People -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 The Policy of Extending Working Life in Discussion on Future World of Work -- 3 Non-Standard Forms of Employment and Flexibility in Employment from the Perspective of Older People -- 4 The Determinants for Using Flexible Forms of Employment to Extend Working Life of Older Adults -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References
Liberalizaton Without Major Reforms: The Destandarization of Employment Relations in Central Eastern European Countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework. Trajectories of Change in the Employment Regulation -- 3 Trajectory of Liberalization in CEECs After the Economic Transition. from Deregulation to Destandarization -- 4 Emergence of New Trajectory-Destandarization and Its Dimensions and Levels -- 5 Destandarizaton in CEECs-Political Level -- 6 Destandarization in CEECs-Compliance Dimension -- 7 Destandarization in CEECs-Adjustment Dimension -- 7.1 Fixed Term Contracts (FTCs)
7.2 Civil Law Contracts (CLCs) and Other Marginal Employment -- 7.3 Bogus Self-Employment -- 7.4 Employment in Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs) -- 8 Conclusion and Discussion -- Literature -- Flexibility in Employment. Chances and Threats from the Perspective of the Work-Life Balance Concept -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Notion of Flexible Employment. Levels of Employment Flexibility -- 3 Making Employment More Flexible Versus Psychosocial Risks in the Work Environment -- 4 Closing Remarks -- Bibliography -- New Forms of Employment in a Digital Age -- The Protection of Crowdworkers Under German Law
1 Platform-Based Outsourcing of Work-"Crowdsourcing" -- 1.1 Basic Principles of Crowdworking -- 1.1.1 Common Characteristics -- 1.1.2 Diverging Forms of Crowd-Based Employment -- 1.2 Benefits and Risks -- 2 Protection of Crowdworkers Under German Law -- 2.1 Crowdworkers as Employees -- 2.1.1 Potential Employer -- 2.1.2 Qualification as Personally Dependent Employee -- 2.2 Crowdworkers as 'Heimarbeiter' -- 2.2.1 Qualification -- 2.2.2 Level of Protection -- 2.3 Crowdworkers as Employee-like Persons -- 2.3.1 Qualification -- 2.3.2 Level of Protection -- 3 Deficits in Legal Protection
Summary This volume is the first collection of original research brought together under the name of new forms of employment. The contributions written specifically for this project - an intruduction, conclusion, and chapters - propose to critically investigate the current state of this burgeoning and relevant research field and map out future directions. The diverse selection of research oriented on new forms of employment across the World included in this volume provides readers with a variety of topics, disciplinary angles, critical approaches and practices, methods and interpretations, emphases and voices, which, when taken together, illustrate the diversity and complexity of this dynamic and stimulating field, as well as the hightened attention to labour and employment law issues and proliferation of labour and employment law-oriented scholars. The Content · Changing patterns of work: implications for employment relationship · New forms of employment in a digital age · The protection of workers in new forms of employment · New forms of employment and challenges for the protection of collective labour rights of employees The Editors Jerzy Wratny a full professor of labour law, associated with the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Agata Ludera-Ruszel a Ph. D. in labour law, an assistant professor in Department of Labour Law and Social Policy at the Institute of Law of the University of Rzeszow, Poland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 13, 2020)
Subject Labor.
Work -- History -- 21st century
Occupations.
Work
Occupations
labor.
occupations (livelihoods)
Labor
Occupations
Work
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wratny, Jerzy, editor.
Ludera-Ruszel, Agata, editor
ISBN 9783658285111
3658285117
Other Titles New forms of employment