The Labour Contract Law of People’s Republic of China came into effect in 2008 to supplement the first Labour Law of 1994. The enactment of this law, however, coincided with the outbreak of the world’s financial tsunami at the same time. Many enterprises in China, especially manufacturing factories, faced tremendous difficulties of both the decreasing sales orders from the West and increasing o...

This article compares how the United States and Germany deregulated labor markets between 1980s 2010s in response to rise of neoliberalism. Building on literature with a focus ideas national knowledge regimes, authors argue that trajectories market deregulation across two countries are explained by distinct social organization ideas. The latter refers actors institutions involved production dis...

Abstract In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, growth new forms self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, analyse wide range positions within heterogeneous category self-employed workers. This article analyses emergent methodologies used in European comparative statistics identify dependency se...

The purpose of this paper is to account for the revival of both academic and substantive interest in what had long been seen as an unimportant byway of social policy: the role of social partners, especially trade unions, in the management of national social insurance systems. The answer is found in the budgetary crises facing these systems along with the frequent embedded role of the social par...