Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment...

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Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan, Italy)

Hybrid Labour

Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment...

Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan, Italy)

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English

Routledge
03 February 2025

Research methods: general; Sociology: work & labour; Economics; Business mathematics & systems; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human agency, it focuses not only on how workers at the boundaries between employment and self‑employment are affected by social norms and institutions but also on how they can shape them in turn, especially through collective organising.

The analysis presents the main findings of the ERC project SHARE – Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Representing self‑Employment – a six‑year transdisciplinary and multi‑method study conducted by combining comparative analysis of labour laws and labour force surveys with a cross‑national ethnography carried out in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. By proposing to use ‘Hybrid as Method’, the tensions between employment and self‑employment are analysed to challenge the hierarchy encoded in this dichotomy and to problematise its boundaries. Indeed, the category of hybrid has proved promising not only for understanding which categories are at stake but also how they have been historically constructed and how they may be differently imagined and conceptualised.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of all social sciences, particularly those who study the ongoing processes of individualisation and the novel forms of organising developed in the hybrid areas of labour. It will also be useful to activists and trade unionists, as well as policymakers.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.

Edited by: Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan Italy)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9781032405629
ISBN 10: 1032405627
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 03 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, where she is also the scientific coordinator of the Research Centre GENDERS (https://gender.unimi.it/). Her research interests focus on precariousness, emerging forms of organising, and gender differences in organisations. She is the PI of the ERC project SHARE, ‘Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re‑presenting self‑Employment’ (2017–2023, https://ercshare.unimi.it/). She recently co‑edited the book Faces of Precarity: Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles (2022).