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1st Edition

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

Edited By Annalisa Murgia Copyright 2025

318 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

318 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

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... Read more

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Annalisa Murgia

PART 1. The State of the Art

1. Working at the Boundaries: An Introduction to Solo Self-employment

Annalisa Murgia

2. A Statistical Portrait of the Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment in Europe: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Rossella Bozzon

3. Regulating Labour at the Border between Employment and Self-employment: An Enduring Challenge

Pierluigi Digennaro

4. When Labour Diversifies, Its Collective Representation Does Too

Petr Mezihorák, Paolo Borghi, and Mathilde Mondon-Navazo

PART 2. Epistemological and Methodological Approach

5. Hybrid as an Epistemological and Methodological Approach

Annalisa Murgia

6. Research Contexts and Methods

Annalisa Murgia

PART 3. SHARE: A Transdisciplinary and Multi-method Study Conducted in Six European Countries

7. Deconstructing Labour Statistics by Reconstructing the Concepts of Autonomy and Dependency

Rossella Bozzon

8. Hybrid Work in Hybrid Organisations. Labour Law and New Organisational Methods

Pierluigi Digennaro

9. A Comparative Ethnography on the Collective Representation in the Hybrid Areas of Labour

Petr Mezihorák, Mathilde Mondon-Navazo, and Paolo Borghi

10. Hybrid Cooperatives: An Alternative to Self-employment Ensuring Autonomy, Security, and Solidarity

Mathilde Mondon-Navazo, Paolo Borghi, and Valeria Piro

11. If Work Is Hybrid, Are Workers Hybrid Too? Old and New Challenges for Approaching Heterogeneous Workers

Andrea Bottalico, Valeria Piro, Mathilde Mondon-Navazo, Paolo Borghi, and Petr Mezihorák

12. Hybrid Practices of Organising: How Workers Mobilise between Employment and Self-employment

Valeria Piro, Andrea Bottalico, Petr Mezihorák, Paolo Borghi, and Mathilde Mondon-Navazo

13. Hybrid Forms of Organising Are Growing and so Are Workers’ Networks: The Emergence of Transnational Alliances

Paolo Borghi, Francesco Bagnardi, and Mathilde Mondon-Navazo

14. A Hybrid Attempt to Regulate Labour: Recent Developments under the European Union’s Legal Framework

Francesco Bagnardi and Pierluigi Digennaro

Afterword

Annalisa Murgia

Editor(s)

Biography

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).

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