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What is the European picture?



Much of our work is for the European Commission or has a European focus. Some past published work is listed below.

For current European projects, click here
  • eWork in Europe: Results from the EMERGENCE 18-country Survey (with O’Regan, S.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 380, 2001
  • Where the Butterfly Alights: the Global Location of eWork (with Jagger, N.) Institute for Employment Studies, Report No 378, 2001
  • ‘Equality and Telework in Europe’ in The Telework Environment, European Trade Union Confederation, 2001
  • Flexible Labour Markets and Social Protection in Europe, European Commission, DGV, 1996 (still in draft form, this report looks at the relationship between flexible labour markets and benefit systems in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Greece. A pamphlet drawing on this research will be published in due course by the Citizens Income Trust in the UK)
  • Follow-up to the White Paper- Teleworking, European Commission Directorate General V, September, 1994, also published as Social Europe, Supplement 3, European Commission DGV, 1995
  • Teleworking and Gender, European Commission DGV Equal Opportunities Unit, May, 1996 (click here for further details)
  • Market Implementation of Teleworking in Rural Environments: Case Studies, Report to the European Commission, DG XIII, 1992
  • The impact of the Single European Market: How British Counties Compare, Empirica, 1991 (special editions produced for Sheffield City Council and South Glamorgan County Council with additional chapters on their own local economies)
  • 'The Local Industrial Impact of the Single European Market', in Local Government Policy Making, March, 1991
  • The Potential for Decentralised Electronic Working in the Banking, Insurance and Software Industries in the UK, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1986
  • What Price Flexibility?: the Casualisation of Women's Employment, (co-author with Hurstfield, J. and Holtmaat, R.), Low Pay Unit, London, September l989 (based on an intensive four-day workshop on the subject, bringing together experts from the UK and the Netherlands, this synthesises research findings and policy issues raised by flexible working from a gender perspective)
A useful source of information about other developments in Europe relating to the Information Society is the ISPO database, http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/

For general information about the Commission's Information Society Technologies programme, go to http://www.cordis.lu

Another interesting site, which contains information about teleworking from a European trade union perspective is that of MIRTI, http://www.iess-ae.it/mirti





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