7. Non-Standard Work

1. What accounts for the rise in self-employment in the UK since the 1980s?

2. Consider the work and family consequences of home-working.

3. Is temporary agency-work the least desirable form of non-standard work?

4. Why are women over-represented in part-time work?

5. Is all non-standard work sub-standard?

6. Assess the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of the destandardization of work thesis.

7. Examine the view that Beck and Castells exaggerate markedly the extent of the destandardization of work.