Work and Welfare in Europe: The Comparative Experience of Labour Market Disadvantage

Bertolini, Alessio

This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies.

Bertolini explores the lived experience of these workers, and demonstrates how institutional variables interact in complex ways with individual socio-demographic characteristics as well as the broader socio-economic context to shape individual disadvantages and engender different experiences of precariousness. 

Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, sociology of work, welfare studies, labour market policy, and industrial relations.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-05-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030401917

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40192-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 243