The aim of this paper is to shed light on the paths, directions, and ensuing degrees of technological adoption fostered by trade unions or, alternatively, forms of resistance thereof, in the so called 'Italian Motor-Valley', a distinctive technological district located in the outskirts of...

Labor migration and migration policy -- Labor migration and the preservation of the Swedish model -- Rejecting calls for deregulation of labor migration policy : LO and the SAP in the 2002 Swedish parliamentary election campaign -- The battle to preserve an incentive-compatible labor migration...

1. Social democracy and trade unions -- 2. Sweden : social democracy after the divorce? -- 3. Germany : the collapse of a model? -- 4. State, unions, and labourism in Britain -- 5. The persistence of French exceptionalism? -- 6. The 'European social model' : towards a transnational social...