Non-Standard Employment in Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Changing Employment Standards in a Crisis-Ridden Europe

Chapter 2 A Conceptual Approach of the Destandardization of Employment in Europe since the 1970s

Chapter 3 Employment Standards in Transition: From Fordism to Finance-Driven Capitalism

Chapter 4 Non-Standard Employment and European Union Employment Regulation

Chapter 5 The Expansion of Temporary Employment in Spain (1984–2010): Neither Socially Fair nor Economically Productive

Chapter 6 ‘Flexicurity’ through Normalization? Changes in Scope, Composition and Conditions of Temporary Employment in Croatia

Chapter 7 Destandardization of Employment in the UK: Issues, Politics and Policy Reinvention

Chapter 8 Non-Standard Employment in Poland: Option or Necessity?

Chapter 9 Revival of the ‘German Model’? Destandardization and the New Labour Market Regime

Chapter 10 Non-Standard Employment and Perceptions of Job Characteristics and Labour Market Situation: An Intra-Nordic Comparison

Chapter 11 Should We Care about Part-Time Work from a Poverty Perspective? An Analysis of the EU15 Countries

Chapter 12 Temporary Employment and Poverty in the Enlarged European Union: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis

Chapter 13 Non-Standard Employment and Anomie in the EU

Chapter 14 Conclusion: Non-Standard Employment: Concept, Empirical Results and Policy Implications