This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the alleged need of European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which national policies pursue this aim without jeopardising existing high standards of income and employment security....

Phänomen Crowdworking Crowdworking-Plattformen wie "Mechanical Turk" oder "Clickworker" sind die Vorboten einer neuen Arbeitsorganisation. Bei den Internetmarktplätzen für Arbeit gibt es in der Regel große Machtasymmetrien zwischen Auftraggebern und Crowdworkern. Bei Mechanical Turk zum...

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the...