Rethinking the concept of the "employee" in the age of digitalisation: A new relationship between work and legal protection

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This paper aims to adopt the perspective of employers, trade unions and society at large in examining ways in which the status of “employee” might change in a service and knowledge society. The traditional concept of the “employee” is rooted in the capitalist industrial society—and this type of society, owing to the forces of globalisation and digitalisation, is no longer predominant...The point of departure is a critique of the core criterion of the prevailing concept of the employee: personal dependency. What we need is an up-to-date vision of both employees, within the dynamic nature and growing diversity of work in the digital age, and social protection not based on employment, but for workers as citizens.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper Forschungsförderung ; No. 113

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: employee ; deregulation ; personal dependency ; social protection ; labour law

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mückenberger, Ulrich
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
• (where): Düsseldorf
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/216037
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019022610562277359682
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET