Contents:Preface 1. Self-Employment: Between Freedom and Insecurity Wieteke Conen and Joop SchippersPART I Do we have to worry about the 'new self-employed'? Theory and Context2. Labour Market Flexibility, Self-Employment and Precariousness Joop Schippers3. Social Protection for the Self-Employed: an EU Legal Perspective Hanneke Bennaars4. Self-Employment, Pensions and the Risk of Poverty in Old Age Uwe FachingerPART II Self-Employment and Precarious Work in Europe: Empirical Results5. Self-Employment: Independent 'Enterprise', or Precarious Low-skilled Work? The case of the UK Nigel Meager6. Micro-Entrepreneurship and Changing Contours of Work: Towards Precarious Work Relations? Empirical Findings from AustriaDieter Bögenhold, Andrea Klinglmair, Zulaicha Parastuty and Florian Kandutsch7. Precariousness and Social Risks among Solo Self-Employed in Germany and The Netherlands Wieteke Conen and Maarten Debets8.

Between Precariousness and Freedom: the Ambivalent Condition of Independent Professionals in ItalyPaolo Borghi and Annalisa Murgia9. Bogus Self-Employment in Sweden Dominique Anxo and Thomas Ericson 10. Precariousness among Older Self-Employed Workers in Europe Wieteke Conen11. Migrant Self-Employment in Germany: On the Risks, Characteristics and Determinants of Precarious WorkStefan Berwing, Andrew Isaak and René LeichtPART III Implications and Future Research Agenda12. The Matter of Representation: Precarious Self-Employment and Interest Organisations Giedo Jansen and Roderick Sluiter13. The 'New' Self-Employed and Hybrid Forms of Employment: Challenges for Social Policies in Europe Karin Schulze Buschoff14. Between Freedom and Insecurity: Future Challenges Joop Schippers and Wieteke ConenIndex.