One feature of ‘flexibilisation’ concerns the growth of more individualised employment arrangements and career trajectories less connected to employing organisations. Informed by the Varieties of Capitalism approach, which emphasises the embeddedness of employment practices within discrete types of capitalist market economy, and based on rich qualitative data from interviews with 32 self-employed and directly employed ICT professionals in the United Kingdom and Germany, we investigate comparative variation in their experience of flexibilisation. The research findings not only indicate some commonality, particularly in respect of perceptions of independence, but also highlight notable differences with regard to work pressures and insecurity. The paper advances theory by characterising two discrete varieties of flexibilisation, a ‘liberalised’ form evident in the United Kingdom and a more ‘regulated’ type apparent in Germany, contributing to a better understanding of comparative differences in flexibilisation.

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各种灵活性？英国和德国信息和通信技术专业人员的工作生活

“灵活化”的一个特点是，更加个性化的就业安排和职业轨迹的发展与就业组织的联系较少。受资本主义多样性方法的启发，该方法强调就业实践在离散类型的资本主义市场经济中的嵌入性，并基于对英国和德国 32 名自雇和直接雇佣的 ICT 专业人士的采访获得的丰富定性数据，我们调查他们的灵活性经验的比较差异。研究结果不仅表明了一些共性，特别是在独立感方面，而且还强调了在工作压力和不安全感方面的显着差异。该论文通过描述两种离散的灵活性来推进理论，