For a reconfiguration of trade union action: a wide-ranging interpretation beyond hypotheses of convergence

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Notes

^1.Ferner and Hyman, Industrial Relations; Ferner and Hyman, Changing Industrial Relations; and Hyman, Understanding European Trade Unionism.

^2.Gumbrell-McCormick, “International Actors”; Cotton and Gumbrell-McCormick, “Global Unions.”

^3. For example, for a different emphasis of certain historical-institutional characteristics of the German case, see Streeck, “Beneficial Constraints”. And for a somewhat different interpretation of the Italian case, see Regalia, “Italian Trade Unions.”

^4.Gumbrell-McCormick and Hyman, Trade Unions, 46.

^5.Baccaro and Howell, “A Common Neoliberal Trajectory.”

^6.Piore and Safford, “Changing Regimes.”

^7.Gumbrell-McCormick and Hyman, Trade Unions, vii.

^8.Pizzorno, “Political Exchange.”

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Ida Regalia

Ida Regalia is Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations at Università degli Studi di Milano. Among her most recent publications are the following: in English, the edited volume Regulating New Forms of Employment: Local Experiments and Social Innovation in Europe (Routledge, 2006), and in Italian, Distretti e strategie di uscita dalla crisi: attori e istituzioni nei processi di policy-making (Bruno Mondadori, 2011).