Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and institutional settings. After surveying these new forms of work and the new demands for labour-market regulation, the authors identify possible solutions among local-level actors and provide a detailed analysis of how firms assess the advantages and disadvantages of flexible forms of employment. The authors provide six detailed case studies to examine the successes and failures of experimental approaches and social innovation in various regions in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Author(s): Ida Regalia
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 New forms of employment and new problems of regulation......Page 19
2 Flexible arrangements within companies......Page 38
3 Building local institutional arrangements for flexicurity in France......Page 70
4 Non-standard employment......Page 99
5 Between institutionalized concertation and experimentation......Page 125
6 Inclusion strategies: regulating non-standard employment in the ‘Third Italy’......Page 156
7 Catalonia......Page 188
8 The West Midlands......Page 217
9 What regulation for the new forms of employment?......Page 245
References......Page 280
Index......Page 298
