Это сладкое слово «фрилансер»

Мир России: Социология, этнология. 2023. Т. 32. № 4. С. 199–207.

Barsukova S.

The book by Strebkov and Shevchuk, published in 2022, “What do we know about freelancers? The Sociology of Free Employment” is devoted to the increasingly popular form of non-standard employment of independent professionals. The authors exclude representatives of physical labor, limiting freelancers to those whose activities are limited to the processing and creative use of information. The book is written mainly on the basis of surveys conducted in 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2019 on a remote employment platform, where customers and providers find each other. The book is the most complete empirical description of the activities of freelancers. The authorities have successfully fought against informal employment at large enterprises and even taxable self-employment has turned from isolated cases into a mass phenomenon. How are things with the legalization of freelancers? In order to assess the scale of informality of freelancers, the questionnaire included a question about how transactions between the customer and the contractor are executed. It turned out that no more than 15% of freelancers use written contracts

Keywords: фрилансеры, неформальная занятость, informal employment, самозанятые, freelancers, self-employment, биржи удаленной работы, gig economy, легализация рынка труда