Farewell to the self-employed : deconstructing a socioeconomic and legal solipsism
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Farewell to the self-employed : deconstructing a socioeconomic and legal solipsism
（Contributions in labor studies, no. 41）
Greenwood Press, c1992
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Bibliography: p. [163]-185
Includes index
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Description
This work offers a firm theoretical foundation for discussing the self-employed, their role over time, and the formulation of policy towards them. It is a comprehensive analysis of self-employment to integrate legal, sociological, and economic theory. Linder offers a conceptual critique of the underpinnigs of the category of the self-employed that calls into question the theoretical coherence of the traditional approaches. He views the current debate over the recent alleged growth in self-employment in the context of the casualization and externalization of employment relationships - such as part-time, temporary, home, leased, and subcontracted labour - designed to forge "just-in-time" work forces derived of traditional benefits and labour organizations. And he shows the chief source of data on the self-employed, collected by the Bureau of the Census, to be seriously flawed and the generally-accepted notion of the self-employed to be grossly overinclusive. This work should be of interest to sociologists, labour lawyers and labour law scholars, and economists in labour studies, industrial relations, and industrial organization.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the Transvaluation of a Real Self-Contradiction
- Methodology
- Class - Exploitation, Dependence, Risk and Insecurity
- Substance
- Legislative and Judicial Attitudes toward the Unemployed Self-Employed
- The Question of the Incorporated Self-Employed
- Conclusion - Dissolution and Reconstitution.
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