%0 Journal Article
%T Self
%A Anna Mori
%A Paolo Borghi
%A Renata Semenza
%J Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
%@ 1996-7284
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1024258918761564
%X The transition to an on-demand service economy, supported by unprecedented technological developments and the digital revolution, has modified traditional self-employed professions and generated new ones, fostering the growth of a body of highly qualified and hyper-specialised self-employed professionals in the European economies. An analysis of this phenomenon highlights three critical questions, connected to their position in the labour market: 1) the contested definition of their legal status and the (ad hoc) regulation adopted; 2) their position within each national social protection system; 3) the complexity of collective representation in a context of major labour market fragmentation. The article explores these issues from a socio-economic perspective, comparing three European countries £¿ Italy, Germany and the UK £¿ with different welfare state regimes and diverse models for regulating professions. First findings show partly divergent responses to such common challenges, yet display some positive signs of change for self-employed professionals
%K Self-employed professionals
%K social protection
%K collective representation
%K Italy
%K Germany
%K United Kingdom
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1024258918761564