SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder

Investigates how and to what extent the self-employed and micro-enterprise workers can be represented in the social arena. A cross-sector approach to responsibility for government as well as private businesses.

Autorentext
Lez Rayman-Bacchus, London Metropolitan University, UK Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Roskilde University, Denmark Vesselin Mitov, Confederation of Labor PODKREPA, Bulgaria Laurent Labrot, IEP Insitute d'études politiques de Grenoble - Edias, France Sofia Lampousaki, INE Labor Institute of Greek General Confederation of Labor, Greece Boglárka Bata, CF Carpathian Foundation, Hungary Robert Geisler, Centrum CSR, Poland Peter Dzupka, CF Carpathian Foundation, Slovakia Laura Dittel, CF Carpathian Foundation, Slovakia Alexis Serra, CTAC Confederació de Traballadors d'Autònoms de Catalunya, Spain Dolores Forgione, ISES Association, Italy Salvatore Pettineo, Private Non Profit (PNP) consultancy, Italy

Inhalt
Foreword; Lez Michael Rayman-Bacchus Foreword; Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Introduction; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi PART I: THE ORDINARY WORLD OF TRADE UNIONS 1. The Self-employed as the Unknown Worker; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi PART II: FIELD WORK BEST PRACTICE 2. Legal Status and Working Conditions of Self-employed Persons in Bulgaria; Vesselin Mitov 3. Three Layers Across the Board in France; Laurent Labrot 4. Lawyers and Engineers in Greece; Sofia Lampousaki 5. Tax Simplification in Hungary; Boglárka Bata 6. Upstream Negotiation of Newspaper Vendors in Italy; GianMarco Gilardoni 7. Taxi Cab Deregulation in Poland; Robert Geisler 8. Emerging Farmers' Markets in Slovakia; Peter Dzupka 9. The Legal Status of the Self-employed in Spain; Alexis Serra PART III: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE 10. Towards an Ecology of Industrial Relations; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi 11. SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder of European Social Dialogue; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi 12. Understanding the Unknown Stakeholder; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi PART IV: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE POLITICAL ARENA 13. Separating the Useful from the Beautiful; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi Conclusions: The Cultural Effort of Separating the Useful from the Beautiful; Massimiliano Di Bitetto, GianMarco Gilardoni and Paolo D'Anselmi