Many civil society organizations and advocacy groups consider international human rights norms to offer a more promising avenue for protecting migrant workers from precarious employment than do claims based upon citizenship and the nation state. However, there is little research on how...

This paper focuses on how and where the legal boundaries of the employer are drawn for the purposes of ascribing responsibility for employment-related obligations owed to precarious workers, and does so from two perspectives. The first is conceptual and general and the second is empirical and...

This paper begins by examining the stereotype of self-employment and how it is distinguished from employment in order to develop a more complex and accurate typology of subordination and autonomy in employment relationships. The next section turns to the ILO, and traces its approach to...