Core and Contingent Work in the European Union

Edoardo Ales is Professor of Labour Law at the Department of Economics and Law, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. Olaf Deinert is Professor of Civil Law, Labour and Social Law at Georg-August University, Göttingen. Jeff Kenner is Professor of European Law at the University of Nottingham.

1. The Spirit of Pontignano
Lorenzo Gaeta
2. Methodological Introduction
Edoardo Ales
3. Contingent Work: A Conceptual Framework
Antonio Lo Faro
4. Equal Treatment as a Problem: Germany and Agency Work
Olaf Deinert
5. ‘Making’ Contingent Work Conditional: Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Contracts in Belgian Law
Filip Dorssemont
6. Externalising the Workforce: Lessons from France
Pascal Lokiec
7. Do We Really Wish You Were Here? Hungary and Distance Work
Erika Kovács
8. Re-structuring the Standard Employment Relationship: Italy and the Increasing Protection Contract
Maurizio Del Conte
9. Re-addressing Self-employment: Spain and the New Entrepreneurship
José Manuel Gómez Muñoz
10. Inverting the Flexicurity Paradigm: The United Kingdom and Zero Hours Contracts
Jeff Kenner
11. Collective Regulation of Contingent Work: From Traditional Forms of Contingent Work to Crowdwork—A German Perspective
Thomas Klebe and Johannes Heuschmid
12. Does Age Matter? Sweden, Younger and Older Workers and the Intergenerational Dimension of Contingent Work
Mia Rönnmar
13. Social Protection of Contingent Work: Austria and the Full Coverage Social Insurance System
Franz Marhold
14. The ‘Risk Approach’ in Occupational Health and Safety (with an Eye to Italy): Alternative or Complement to the ‘Core/Contingent Approach’?
Edoardo Ales
15. Contingent Work and Social Cohesion: Some Outcomes and One Proposal
Edoardo Ales and Olaf Deinert