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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2023-12-142024
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
vii, 202
Publishing info:
Cologne : University of Duisburg-Essen
Table of Contents:
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
1.2 STATE OF THE ART
1.3 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
1.3.1 Organizational Characteristics and Market Structures
1.3.2 Institutions and Enforcement
1.3.3 The Triangular Employment Relationship
1.3.4 Shaping Market Structures
1.4 RESEARCH DESIGN
1.4.1 Commercial Relationship
1.4.2 Employment Dimension
1.4.3 Institutions and Enforcement
1.5 RESEARCH FOCUS: NORTHERN ITALY
1.6 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
1.7. STRUCTURE OF THE CHAPTERS
PART I: PRACTICES
CHAPTER 2: MISCLASSIFICATION
2.1 SUBCONTRACTING AS A DUMPING STRATEGY
2.2 MISCLASSIFICATION, AVOIDANCE AND ILLEGALITY
2.3 STAGING AS A TECHNIQUE OF MISCLASSIFICATION
2.3.1 Staging Through a Fictitious Company
2.3.2 Scenic Designs and Stage Props
2.3.3 Cooperatives
2.3.4 Figureheads, Pirate Contracts and Certifications
2.3.5 Clothing, Partitioning Lines and Tools
2.4 FRAUDULENT SUBCONTRACTING WITHOUT THE USE OF A FICTITIOUS COMPANY
CHAPTER 3: LABOUR-INTENSIVE SUBCONTRACTING AS INTERMEDIATION
3.1 INTERMEDIATION AND INTERPOSITION
3.2 INFORMAL INTERMEDIARIES
3.2.1. A Matter of Organised Crime?
3.3 SERVICE COMPANIES, LABOUR-INTENSIVE SUBCONTRACTING AND INTERMEDIATION
3.3.1 Cooperatives
3.4 AGENCIES
3.5 MAKING THE MARKET FOR INTERMEDIATION SERVICES POSSIBLE: THE ROLE OF CONSULTANTS
3.6 LABOUR MARKET SEGMENTATION THROUGH MISCLASSIFICATION
CHAPTER 4: SUBCONTRACTING IN ITALIAN CAPITALISM
4.1 FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE “ECONOMIC BOOM.”
4.2 AFTER THE CRISIS: THE 1970S
4.3 FROM THE SECOND ECONOMIC BOOM TO TODAY
PART II: INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 5: FORBEARANCE AND LABOUR INTERMEDIATION
5.1 THE ROLE OF THE STATE
5.2 (DE)REGULATING INTERMEDIATION
5.2.1 “Greying” the Concept of Intermediation
5.2.2 Between Practices and the Law
5.2.3 The Introduction of Private Placement
5.2.4 The Re-Definition of Illicit Intermediation
5.2.5 Changing the Sanctioning Regime
5.2.6 The Strange Case of Posting
5.3 A WEAK IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM
5.3.1 A Lack of Resources
5.3.2 The Lack of a Monitoring Strategy and the Problem of Certifications
5.4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATIVES
5.5 MIGRATION POLICIES
5.6 ACTIVE LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
5.7 EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND SEGMENTATION
5.8 PARTIAL ENFORCEMENT AS DESIGN AND CONTRADICTION
CHAPTER 6: THE POLITICS OF THE REFORM OF THE REGIME OF LABOUR
INTERMEDIATION
6.1 THE REFORM PROCESS
6.1.1 Before 2003: the 1990es and the Introduction of Agency Work
6.1.2 The Reform of 2003 and the Liberalisation of Private Placement
6.1.3 The Years of the Crisis and the Approval of the Law Against Caporalato
6.1.4 The Centre-Left Government and the Decriminalisation of Fraudulent Subcontracting
6.1.5 The Governments of the 5 Stars Movement and the Proposal for the Reinstatement of the Ban on Intermediation
6.2 NOT ONLY GOVERNMENTS: ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND THE JURISPRUDENCE
6.3 THE OTHER ACTORS OF THE INDUSTRIAL RELATION SYSTEM
6.3.1 Unions
6.3.2 Employers’ Associations
6.4 HOW MUCH RULE BREAKING?
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONS
7.1 MISCLASSIFICATION, STAGING AND FICTITIOUS COMPANIES
7.2 A MARKET FOR INTERMEDIATION SERVICES
7.2.1 The Role of Consultants
7.2.2 Misclassification and Cooperatives
7.3 MISCLASSIFICATION, FORBEARANCE AND THE STATE
7.3.1 Sabotage Through the Greying of Institutions
7.3.2 The Connection Between Forbearance and Failure
7.4 MISCLASSIFICATION AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
7.5. GOING FORWARD
REFERENCES
Rev. Type:
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Degree:
PhD
