Workers Without Companies - Towards a New Way of Working

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.

List of contents

Introduction 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 3. Silent mutations in labour exchanges 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 T6. Mobilisation and organisation of scientific work under state protection What can the structure of Spain's 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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Célérier, Alberto Riesco-Sanz
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032333014
• ISBN: 978-1-032-33301-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Sociology: work & labour, Agriculture & Related Industries, Sociology: work and labour, Agribusiness and primary industries, Employment & Unemployment