Book Review: Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets. An Occupational Perspective
| Author | Marco Biasi |
| DOI | 10.1177/138826271601800409 |
| Published date | 01 December 2016 |
| Date | 01 December 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book Reviews
European Jour nal of Social Sec urity, Volume 18 (2016), No. 4 419
perspective is largely missing, although Ka hn-Freund’s legacy is so highly esteemed.
I believe he could not have had such a substantial in uence on British labour law if
he had not come from another legal trad ition and thus adopted a strong comparative
approach (he was Professor of Comparative Law in Ox ford).
e contributions have one major point in common, and that is using Freedla nd
as a reference point. Several authors – especially Collins, Bogg, Prassl, C ountouris,
Davies, McCrudden – make an at tempt to select an idea from Freedland’s work
and undertake a critical analysis of it. e variety of topics and the richness of the
arguments that a re presented clearly demonstrate the seminal in uence of this great
scholar on labour law. e ubiquitous legacy of his teacher, Kahn-Freund, is also
striking in ma ny chapters.
is book not only contains excellent contributions from outstanding schola rs;
that is taken for granted when we spea k about ‘Oxford labour law’. Most valuable is
the insider information t hat the authors provide about labour law scholars in Oxford.
is insider knowledge, someti mes even jokes, make the reading of the book not only
worthwhile, but high ly entertaining.
Erika Kovács
Department of Business , Labour and Social Law
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Austri a
Erika Kovács received her dipl oma in law from the University of Pécs, Hungary and, her
doctoral degree in law (Dr.iur.) from the University of Tr ier, Germany. She is currently at
the Vienna University of Economics and Busines s in Au stria, where she holds a tenure
track post-doctoral position. Her interests include l abour law and European social law.
Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx (eds.), Non-Standard Employment in Post-
Industrial Labour Markets. An Occupational Perspective, Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar Publishi ng, 2015, 448 pp. (hardcover), ISBN 978–1–78100–171–4.
In their volume ‘Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets. An
Occupational Perspective’, the editors Werner Eichhorst and Paul Ma rx assemble a
remarkable number of contributions (combining case studies and data), addressing
the highly debated topic of the di usion of non-standard or atypical work and its
e ects on the labour ma rkets of selected Western European Countries and t he US.
e book contains 14 contributions and is divided into two mai n parts, one
dedicated to single-country studies and the other to comparative approaches. Bot h
parts of the volume dr aw on elements of sociology, political science and, in par ticular,
labour economics. e aims of the book a re thoroughly explai ned by the editors in
their introduction. Given t he ongoing deindustrialisation and grow ing private service
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