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Workers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working [Kietas viršelis]

(Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), (University of Lille, France)
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Workers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace.



Workers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace.

Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the activation of self-employment—especially through intermediary platforms—this book examines the transformation of the wage system not only in traditional salaried sectors but also in self-employment, agriculture, and the field of science and knowledge production. The authors identify a common movement: the growing detachment between companies and their employees. This deep-rooted and enduring trend is reshaping the wage relationship at the core of modern societies, continuously altering and destabilising workers’ lives. Recognising this shift is essential to interrogating what work—and our lives—will become in the years ahead. The book, therefore, concludes with a proposed research agenda structured around five key axes.

As such, Workers Without Companies will appeal to sociologists with interests in work and industry, employment and unemployment, organisation studies and labour relations.

Introduction Part I: Shaping the wage system in Europe
1. Ambiguities in
the European model Compulsory insurance under state control The legacy of an
industrial and political history The formation of the chief players in the
labour exchange Work in Europe: convergences and national differences
2.
Transformations in the wage system The Golden Age of capitalism? A new
mutation of capitalism A profound remodelling of the wage system
3. Silent
mutations in labour exchanges Value sharing and widening inequalities Working
remotely and intermittently A more complex and interconnected labour
mobilisation Part II: Variations in the wage system
4. The incomplete wage
system of self-employed workers The dismantling of the wage system The
expansion of the wage system A new type of self-employed worker
5. The
agricultural wage system The same players as in the wage system Constantly
accompanied production Regulations and tension among the agricultural wage
system
6. Mobilisation and organisation of scientific work under state
protection What can the structure of Spains science system teach us about
the dynamics of the wage system? The creation of a science and innovation
system in Spain Mobilisation and organisation of scientific work under state
protection Challenges facing the current system of scientific labour
mobilisation in Spain In conclusion: some proposals for future research on
work The primordial alienation of workers from their work A transformed
system of valorisation States under pressure A new way of organising
production Professional trajectories outside the company sphere
Sylvie Célérier is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Lille University, member of the Lille Centre for Sociological and Economic Research and Studies (CLERSE) CNRS UMR 8019.

Alberto Riesco-Sanz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Associate Researcher at the Complutense Institute for the Study of Contemporary Social Transformations (TRANSOC).