By Max Koch, Martin Fritz

Postwar employment criteria are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is changing into extra universal. whereas students have pointed to unfavourable results of this improvement, this quantity additionally discusses the facts for a brand new and socially inclusive ecu employment normal.

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Pollert, A. and Charlwood, A. (2009) ‘The Vulnerable Worker in Britain and Problems at Work’, Work Employment and Society 23 (2): 343–62. Rodgers, G. and Rodgers, J. (eds) (1989) Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe, International Institute of Labour Studies, Brussels: Free University of Brussels. Rubery, J. (1989) ‘Precarious Forms of Work in the UK’ in Rodgers, G. and Rodgers, J. (eds) Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe, International Institute of Labour Studies, Brussels: Free University of Brussels.

Applying correspondence analysis, the chapter identifies associations between types of NSE and greater and lesser degrees of anomie and how these vary among different social groups and household characteristics, according to welfare and labour market regimes and in EU member states. References Alonso, L. E. and Martínez-Lucio, M. (eds) (2006) Employment Relations in a Changing Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Boyer, R. (2000) ‘Is a Finance-led Growth Regime a Viable Alternative to Fordism?

It seems that the term was thought to cover a broader variety of meanings, like those of the French précarité, and it was not problematic to transfer it as a calque to English. This unconventional use is an illustration of the fact that concepts are not fixed in time in any one language, and that they travel via communication among researchers. A similar but slightly different process can be found in the adoption of Prekariat in German from 2006 (see below). At a second stage, cross-national communication was also present, but with a different 20 Non-Standard Employment in Europe function.

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