Concept information
Preferred term
employment relationships
Definition
- Economic work can be defined as activity undertaken for another party in exchange for compensation. Employment is a subset of economic work governed by the law that gives the “employer” considerable control over the work process. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Employment Relationship]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- aesthetic labor
- boundaryless careers
- casual labor
- conditions of employment
- contingent work
- contracts
- contract work
- disappearing work
- employability
- employee participation
- employee stock ownership plans
- employee voice
- employment-at-will
- employment contracts
- employment termination
- external labor markets
- flexible scheduling
- franchises
- freelancing
- glass cage
- 'good' employment model
- headhunters
- informal economy
- Japanese transplants
- job security
- job sharing
- job tenure
- labor market intermediaries
- outsourcing and subcontracting
- psychological contracts
- risk shift
- self-employment
- seniority
- teamwork
- temporary placement agencies
- temporary work
- turnover
- undocumented workers
- unitarism
- vulnerable employment
- Walmart employment template
- welfare-to-work
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/employment_relationships
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