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    Conclusion. Protecting Work, Beyond Categories

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    This short essay systematizes the findings of the contributions collected in the book, highlighting the main coordinates of the debate on autonomous work and pointing out the issues that deserve further theoretical analysis and policy initiatives. It maintains that rise of the concept of autonomy has brought more complexity in the employment relations discourse. This paradigm shift can not be addressed by a simple maintenance of the established categories, but requires a general revision of the concepts and instruments traditionally used to regulate the employment relationship

    The European Framework Agreement on Digitalisation: a Whiter Shade of Pale?

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    This article analyses the recent European Social Partners’ framework agreement on digitalisation. After contextualising the agreement as an element of European Social Dialogue, it reconstructs its objectives and its main contents. The measures proposed are commented in the light of the broader policy initiatives undertaken by the European institutions on the topic. The procedural approach and the “mainstreaming” of industrial relations practices in all the stages related to the implementation of digital technologies in the workplace are identified as the most promising innovations introduced by the agreement. The general implications for industrial relations practices are finally discussed, with a particular reference to the respective roles and the mutual relationship of employee involvement schemes and collective bargaining

    Occupational Welfare Arrangements Negotiated at the Transnational Level. A Laboratory for European Social Dialogue?

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    This paper discusses the role of European social dialogue in the establishment of occupational welfare arrangements at the transnational level. In the first part, dedicated to the definition of the key concepts, it is argued that occupational welfare should be framed into the flexicurity context; hence, the analysis of occupational welfare schemes permits the shedding of light on certain characteristics of the flexicurity approach, especially as long as the conditions for the pursuit of ‘high road’ policies is concerned. In the second part, building on the findings of an international research project coordinated by the author, a sample of transnational texts that contain provisions dedicated to occupational welfare is presented, with the aim of explaining whether and under what conditions European social dialogue can be mobilised as a regulatory resource for the implementation of occupational welfare policies linking, from a ‘high road’ perspective, flexibility and competitiveness-oriented strategies with the protection of workers' needs. </jats:p
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