Projects
Working time and time off in labour law: a legal research on work-life balance. KU Leuven
Belgian working time law has come into existence against the background of a social context that differs significantly from today’s reality. Working time law originated at the beginning of the 20th century. It was coordinated and laid down in the ’60 and ’70. Since then, many social evolutions took place that challenge working time law. Only few adaptions, however, have been made over the years. Together and partly as a consequence of this, ...
Lords, land, and labour. The influence of seigneuries on economic development in the late medieval Low Countries (c. 1350 – c. 1550) Ghent University
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural elite’s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Women, labour and land in the late medieval Low Countries: coastal Flanders, c. 1275 - c. 1575. Ghent University
My proposal deals with the economic activities of women in the countryside of coastal Flanders, between c. 1275 and c. 1575. Recently, scholars in economic history have focused on the opportunities for women offered by the rise of labour markets in North-western Europe during the late middle ages. However, scholars specialized in women’s history emphasized the persistent cultural, institutional or technological constraints that women ...
Smart mobility in the European labour market: a legal assessment of the European approach to transnational labour in the new world of work KU Leuven
This research project examines the influence of the new world of work on the legal setting of transnational labour in the EU and attempts to reach out an improved typology of labour mobility and suggestions to adapt the current European mobility legislation. The main focus concerns therefore the question whether the current European mobility legislation still offers an adequate response to a specific new form of work, namely the smart ...
PALIM (Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models): analysis of settling in policies, integration actors and the single permit Ghent University
PALIM (Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models) is een pilootproject uitgevoerd door het Belgische ontwikkelingsagentschap Enabel, met de steun van de Europese Unie en het International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMDP). Het project wil een nieuw arbeidsmigratiemodel testen, door de ontwikkeling van de ICT-sector in Marokko te linken aan het gebrek aan goed opgeleide ...
High Tide – Low Tide. Bruges’ late-medieval harbour system as a maritime cultural landscape. Ghent University
High Tide - Low Tide. Bruges’ late-medieval harbour system as a maritime cultural landscape. Ghent University
Bruges’ role as late-medieval harbour and “maritime cultural landscape” is inextricably associated with the dynamic interaction between man and nature via the Zwin tidal inlet. The connectivity within the local and with the global trade networks, the transactions in commodities as well as the impact of residing foreigners on material culture will be the subject of this interdisciplinary study.
Collective labour rights for self-employed workers: A human rights-based approach of platform work KU Leuven
My research will focus on the human rights protection of self-employed workers, and specially on workers engaged in the so-called platform economy. This is because they often find themselves in the grey zone between employment and self-employment, an issue that it is certainly not novel. The widespread use of freelance jobs entails the risk of leaving such workers outside the scope of protection of fundamental human rights. Indeed, for ...
Casual work arrangements and platform-based work: The casual work agenda as a way to enhance the labour protection of platform workers KU Leuven
The world of work is changing at a considerably high speed. Work arrangements alternative to the standard, open-ended and full-time ones now represent the new reality. These forms of employment include atypical work arrangements such as temporary and casual work, agency work and subcontracting, part-time work, and bogus and dependent self-employment. Work in the gig-economy shares numerous dimensions with all these kind of arrangements. In ...