ILPC 2026

In the contemporary debates on transformation of labor process during the so-called post-industrial period it is often asserted that globalization, technological change and the rise of service sector have paved the way for the proliferation of the precarious forms of employment. However, in many cases the empirical evidence given in support of this claim is often anecdotal or completely missing. Having said that, this paper aims to clarify the concept of precarious employment, i.e. to delineate its qualitative and quantitative aspects in order to set forward an analysis of the recent trends in the Croatian labor market. More specifically, we seek to compare the changes in the share of precarious employment in the pre-crisis period (2006-2009), the period of prolonged recession (2010-2013) and the post-crisis period (2014-2017). In the course of our analysis we shall try to indicate the merit of occupation, class and gender as the potential explanatory categories through which one can account for the transformation of labor relations in Croatia during the last decade of the post-socialist transition.