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- Title
The goods (and bads) of self‐employment.
- Authors
Queralt, Jahel
- Abstract
First, self-employment provides a greater degree of autonomy within work than waged work does, for it allows workers to avoid managerial authority and its pernicious effects on workers' control over their working conditions. In affluent countries, solo self-employment and work in small firms, which self-employed workers usually start and run, account for 57 per cent of total employment. Bogus self-employment occurs, by contrast, when an employer misclassifies a worker as self-employed so as to hide her real status as wage worker. Self-employment, which accounts for one in seven workers in OECD countries, has ceased to decline in recent decades and is now growing in these countries. The burgeoning philosophical analyses of work have paid scant attention to the nature and value of self-employment, nor to the normative significance that the distinction between self-employment and employee work may have for the legal and social protection that self-employed and waged workers are due.
- Subjects
SELF-employment; EMPLOYMENT discrimination; PHILOSOPHY of economics; SOCIAL theory; BUSINESSPEOPLE; FORTUNE; DISCRIMINATION against people with disabilities; GRAVE goods
- Publication
Journal of Political Philosophy, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
0963-8016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jopp.12287