Core and Contingent Work in the European Union

1. The Spirit of Pontignano Lorenzo Gaeta2. Methodological Introduction Edoardo Ales3. Contingent Work: A Conceptual Framework Antonio Lo Faro4. Equal Treatment as a Problem: Germany and Agency Work Olaf Deinert5. 'Making' Contingent Work Conditional: Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Contracts in Belgian Law Filip Dorssemont6. Externalising the Workforce: Lessons from France Pascal Lokiec7. Do We Really Wish You Were Here? Hungary and Distance Work Erika Kovács8. Re-structuring the Standard Employment Relationship: Italy and the Increasing Protection Contract Maurizio Del Conte9. Re-addressing Self-employment: Spain and the New Entrepreneurship José Manuel Gómez Muñoz10. Inverting the Flexicurity Paradigm: The United Kingdom and Zero Hours Contracts Jeff Kenner11. Collective Regulation of Contingent Work: From Traditional Forms of Contingent Work to Crowdwork-A German Perspective Thomas Klebe and Johannes Heuschmid12. Does Age Matter? Sweden, Younger and Older Workers and the Intergenerational Dimension of Contingent Work Mia Rönnmar13. Social Protection of Contingent Work: Austria and the Full Coverage Social Insurance System Franz Marhold14. The 'Risk Approach' in Occupational Health and Safety (with an Eye to Italy): Alternative or Complement to the 'Core/Contingent Approach'? Edoardo Ales15. Contingent Work and Social Cohesion: Some Outcomes and One Proposal Edoardo Ales and Olaf Deinert

Edoardo Ales is Full professor of Labour Law at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy). He also teaches at LUISS - G. Carli Rome (Italy) and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). He is member of the Scientific Committee and National Expert for Italy of the European Centre of Expertise for Labour Law (former ELLN). He is also National Expert for Italy in MoveS and member of the EWL. He is author of several books and essays in peer reviewed journals. Olaf Deinert studied laws at Bremen University from 1989 to 1994, Ph.D. thesis at Rostock University from 1994 to 1998, second examination after legal clerkship in Berlin in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, Olaf Deinert was scientific staff member at Rostock University. In 2004, he took up a junior professorship at Bremen University for civil law and labour law and was awarded his Habilitation in 2006 (University of Rostock). Since 2008, he is Professor for civil law, labour and social law at Göttingen University and honorary judge at the Federal Labour Court. Jeff Kenner is Professor of European Law at the University of Nottingham.

It is indeed the case that the wealth of the analysis and reflection provided in this book makes it extremely difficult to provide an accurate account of all the issues contained within it ... [The editors] put forward a number of proposals that would be useful for the European institutions to consider. Michel Theys Bulletin Quotidien Europe