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"Preface" [2019] ELECD 1840; in Kenner, Jeff; Florczak, Izabela; Otto, Marta (eds), "Precarious Work" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) ix

Book Title: Precarious Work

Editor(s): Kenner, Jeff; Florczak, Izabela; Otto, Marta

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
The main purpose of this book is to address the issue of precarious work in
Europe, where the proliferation of new types of employment without the whole
spectrum of rights associated with the standard employment relationship has
engendered considerable labour market fragmentation and social polarisation.
Precarious work, such as in the `gig economy', poses unique challenges to the
European social model of secure employment and decent social protection.
To address these challenges, we seek to analyse the reasons for the spread of
precarious work in various countries in Europe, to explain the different types
of precarious work and to make proposals to address this phenomenon through
improved labour regulation and practice.
Having developed the concept for the book, a group of leading scholars
in the field of international and comparative labour law came together at an
international seminar held in Lodz in March 2017. Following a stimulating
exchange of ideas at Lodz, a followup seminar was held in Lund in April 2018.
These seminars contributed to improving our comparative understanding of
precarious employment and offered insight into the potential methods of regu-
lation needed to address it at European and national level.
As editors, we are very grateful to the contributors for their commitment to
the book at an early stage and for following up by producing excellent chapters
in good time for publication. Thank you all for your ideas, inspiration, collab-
oration and camaraderie.
We are grateful to Professor Zbigniew Góral who suggested the topic and
strongly ...