DECLINE AND RESURGENCE OF UNREMUNERATED WORK

The distinction between remunerated and unremunerated work is typicall y legal. Remunerated work is the norm, and many forms of unremunerated work are becoming extinct as they come to be recognized as work and t he workers concerned acquire rights, as in family businesses for examp le. Counter to this trend, current measures to combat unemployment are throwing up new forms of work that are without cost to the employer. This type of work, however, while unremunerated from the employer's po int of view, does not imply loss of recognition because it is an expre ssion of collective solidarity.