CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE - HWF

Chapter EightHOUSEHOLDS, WORK AND FLEXIBILITYCritical Review of LiteratureBULGARIA[ Siyka Kovacheva, University of Plovdiv ][ Contents ]INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................1571. FLEXIBILITY AS A POLICY MODEL.................................................................................................1581.1. Flexibility as a way for encouraging employment....................................................................1581.2. The flexible company as a model for Bulgaria’s new businesses...........................................1591.3. Flexibility as a New Form of Human Resources Management...............................................1602. FLEXIBILITY OF WORK IN THE ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN BULGARIA .........................1612.1. Flexibility as Non-Standard Employment in the Post-Communist Labour Market ..................1612.2. Flexibility in Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship..............................................................1632.3. Flexibility as Additional Work...................................................................................................1652.4. Flexibility as Job Changes in One’s Career ............................................................................1663. FLEXIBILITY IN THE INFORMAL (SHADOW) ECONOMY..............................................................1674. FLEXIBILITY AS A TYPE OF HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES ............................................................1684.1. The Flexibility of Active Income Earning Strategies ................................................................1684.2. The Impoverishment of Bulgarian Households as a Barrier to Flexibility ...............................1714.3. Home Production – A Flexible Strategy Out of Poverty ..........................................................1744.4. Back to the Land – Flexible Strategy for Survival ...................................................................1764.5. Flexibility in Gender and Age Division of Labour in the Household ........................................178CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................................180REFERENCES ..........................................................................................................................................181© Project „Households, Work and Flexibility”. Research report #1