Download or read book Dependent Self-Employment written by Colin C. Williams and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment to challenge this broad and erroneous perception.