Farewell to the self-employed: deconstructing a socioeconomic and legal solipsism

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Linder, Marc.Farewell to the self-em ployed : deconstructing a socioeconom ic and legal solipsism / Marc Linder. by GoogleOriginal from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Generated for guest (University of Iowa) on 2012-04-17 16:17 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/m dp.39015025209084Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives / http://w ww .hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd 0 A poor independent workman...in his separate independent state, is less liable to the temptations of bad company, which in large manufactories so frequently ruin the morals of the other. This Bill is a helpful measure, under which anyone can agree with his employer that he or she is henceforth to be treated as self-employed merely by completing a simple form.... Self-employment is one of the most obvious escape routes from that sterile employee culture which was recently condemned by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. ... Employers will be able to employ people...without the fear of becoming locked in by employment protection laws and the other burdens on businesses. In German Idealism and in Marx, self-consciousness, self determination, and self-realization qualified as the concepts in which the normative content of modernity was summarized. The meaning of the prefix "self' has, to be sure, been distorted in the wake of a possessive individualism and under the banner of sheer subjectivity. We must give back to this "self' its intersubjective meaning. ... No one is a subject who belongs only to himself. 35 (1990 [1988]) rv v P n n n l p Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Generated for guest (University of Iowa) on 2012-04-17 16:17 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/m dp.39015025209084 Jurgen Haberm a s, D ie nac h h o len d e R evo lutionCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives / http://w ww .hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd Generated for guest (University of Iowa) on 2012-04-17 16:17 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/m dp.39015025209084Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives / http://w ww .hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd The Hybrid Character of the Self-Employed: Extraterritorial Tertium Quid 35 Contents Heteronomy 42Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN digitized by G o o g l e o Generated for guest (University of Iowa) on 2012-04-17 16:17 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/m dp.39015025209084Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives / http://w ww .hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd VUl Contents Substance 61Who Are the Self-Employed?Income Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Generated for guest (University of Iowa) on 2012-04-17 16:17 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/m dp.39015025209084Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives / http://w ww .hathitrust.org/access_use#cc-by-nc-nd Tables 1. Rate of (Unincorporated) Nonagricultural Self-Employment, 1975 62 Largest Branches in Service Sector by Number of Individual Proprietorships without Payroll, 1987 and 64 Construction Industry Establishments without Payroll, 1972Payroll, , 1982Payroll, ,...