Author: | Stanworth, C. Stanworth, J. |
Title: | Managing an externalized workforce: freelance labour-use in the UK book publishing industry |
Journal: | Industrial Relations Journal
1997 : MAR, VOL. 28:1, p. 43-55 |
Index terms: | INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MANAGEMENT UNITED KINGDOM |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Editorial departments in the UK book publishing sector have shrunk considerably recently and many former in-house employees have transferred to home-based, self-employed (freelance) status, often still working for their former employers. THe results of interviews with in-house managers of externally-based freelancers are presented here, along with a model of segmented labour markets. This article is a follow-up to an earlier one in this journal where it was reported that substantial numbers of formerly in-house editors and proofreaders in the UK book-publishing industry had become self-employed "freelancers", often still working for their previous employers and typically reliant upon a single client for over half their work. |
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