The Fluid Boundaries of “Work”. Some Considerations regarding Concepts, Approaches, and South-Eastern Europe
The Fluid Boundaries of “Work”. Some Considerations regarding Concepts, Approaches, and South-Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The article raises some crucial questions related to the “boundaries of work”: how to conceive, to name, and to approach the limits between what is socially, legally, economically considered “work”, and what is not? The text provides a critical review of the rich interdisciplinary debate around this issue, considering the merits and disadvantages of categories such as “non-work”, “informal sector”, “multiversum of work” and other related ones. Focusing especially on the historiographical aspects of the debate, and considering their applicability to the South-East European region, the article aims at providing theoretical considerations, which can contribute to the innovation of the social history of labour in this region.

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