In dem Forschungsprojekt "New Forms of Employment und Working Time in the Service Economy" untersucht eine internationale Forschergruppe in zehn EU-Ländern Veränderungen der Beschäftigungs- und Arbeitszeitformen in verschiedenen Dienstleistungstätigkeiten. Geleitet wird das Forschungsprojekt...

The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries,...