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.

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.

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