Employment is becoming less secure. In the wealthy economies of the Global North, the
traditional permanent job from which a worker could expect to earn a living wage over years …

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions
represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with …

This article summarizes and reviews research on union responses to precarious work in
Europe, based on a systematic coding of 56 case study-based articles published between …

Non-standard employment, including fixed-term contracts, temporary agency
work,(dependent) self-employment and (marginal) part-time contracts, has been on the rise …

Transformations of European labour markets and welfare systems have deepened the
problem of precarious work, leading trade unions to develop strategies to represent and …

Introduction Over the lastfew years “individualization” has grown into a key concept in a
multitude of debates inside and outside the Dutch trade unions. Despite all these debates …

In most of the world, work has usually been precarious. For several decades, however,
greater employment security was achieved in the developed economies. These gains have …

• Shine a light on working conditions throughout the supply chain–particularly in public
sector contracts (eg lobby politicians, organise workers, use media campaigns)• Important …

This book has a long and complex genesis. Since the 1980s I have had a teaching and
research interest in comparative European industrial relations, and in particular the task of …

Content: Introduction; 1. Precariousness in the German labour market; 1.1 Forms of atypical
and precarious employment; 1.2 Dimensions of precarious employment; 1.3 Summary …