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High Skilled Self-Employed Professionals in Italy: Working Conditions, Expectations, Networks.
The paper analyses the main findings focusing on: changings occurred in the professionals’ identity and their position in the labour market, the gap between the high level of qualification and their working conditions, the tensions between autonomy and subordination, the forms of precarity, gender and generational segmentation and specificities. The paper will also present their expectations and proposals, as well as the challenges for organizing network, collective action and representation of free lances, considering the role of self-organized groups, associations and trade unions. Finally, the paper will focus on the professionals’ reaction to work fragmentation and isolation due to the autonomous form of employment and to the contemporary trends in the work organization.