Varieties of flexibilisation? The working lives of information and communications technology professionals in the United Kingdom and Germany
基于对英国和德国32名自雇和受雇ICT专业人员的访谈，研究发现两国灵活化体验存在共性（如对独立性的感知）和差异（如工作压力和不安全感），并区分了“自由化”和“受监管”两种灵活化类型。
Abstract One feature of ‘flexibilisation’ concerns the growth of more individualised employment arrangements and career trajectories less connected to employing organisations. Informed by the Varieties of Capitalism approach, which emphasises the embeddedness of employment practices within discrete types of capitalist market economy, and based on rich qualitative data from interviews with 32 self‐employed and directly employed ICT professionals in the United Kingdom and Germany, we investigate comparative variation in their experience of flexibilisation. The research findings not only indicate some commonality, particularly in respect of perceptions of independence, but also highlight notable differences with regard to work pressures and insecurity. The paper advances theory by characterising two discrete varieties of flexibilisation, a ‘liberalised’ form evident in the United Kingdom and a more ‘regulated’ type apparent in Germany, contributing to a better understanding of comparative differences in flexibilisation.