In recent decades, due to unprecedented technological advancements, Europe has seen a move towards on-demand service economies. This has allowed the growth of self-employed professionals who are able to satisfy an increasing demand for flexible and high-skill work. This book explores the need for reform of regulations in Europe, studying the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals. It provides insights into ways that policy could address these important challenges.Presenting the result of a wide-reaching European survey, this book highlights key issues being faced across Europe: the implementation of universal social protection schemes; active labour market policies to support sustainable self-employment; and the renewal of social dialogue through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective representation of self-employed professionals. With its theoretically informed, empirical and interdisciplinary comparative analysis, the book identifies and explains key strategies to resolve these challenges, ranging from the provision of services as neo-mutual organizations, to advocacy and lobbying, and the building of self-employed professionals' coalitions and alliances in order to reinforce their legitimacy in the European economy.This book will be of great benefit to both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and economic sociology, political science, industrial relations and human resource management, labour and social law, as well as scholars, practitioners and policymakers concerned with labour market and self-employment in the European context.