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This article, inspired by the recent restructuring of social dialogue in Poland, reflects on the role played by neo-corporatist institutions in the country, with specific reference to their capacity (or not) to influence the approach, contents and implementation of labour policies and, therefore, affect social change. For this purpose, it presents the findings of a case study focused on the sub-national level of regulation and conducted in the region of Lower Silesia, within the framework of the Airmulp project. The analysis - which relies on mixed methods, including the analysis of statistical data, the review of official documents, and interviews with key informants - reveals that regional social dialogue is not likely to produce substantial outcomes and is, most feasibly, a means for building consensus on neo-liberal policies from the bottom up.

1. Introduction -- Part 1 -- 2. When Employment Conditions Rule Professionalism. The Case of the Academic Profession in Switzerland, Pierre Bataille, Nicky Le Feuvre, and Marie Sautier -- 3. Exploring Heterogeneity Within South African Textile Designers, Debby Bonnin -- 4. Varieties of Professionalism and Perceptions of Discrimination in the Legal Professions, Valeria Insarauto, Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard, and Nicky Le Feuvre -- 5. Platform Labour: A New Layer of Differentiation Within Professions?, Ivana Pais, Davide Arcidiacono, and Giorgio Piccitto -- 6. Public Sector Reform and Differentiation Within Professions, by Karolina Parding and Anna Berg Jansson -- part 2 -- 7. Changing Professional Practices in Evolving Professional Systems: The Case of French Doctors and Engineers in Quebec, Jean-Luc Bédard, Marta Massana Macià, and Christophe Groulx -- 8. Doing Professionalism in Everyday Work: The Female Lawyers' Strategies to Exercise Control Over Their Work in Finland, French Canada, and Poland, Marta Choroszewicz -- 9. Examining Teacher Professionalism Under Test-Based Accountability Regimes: A Realist Synthesis, Natalie Browes, Marcel Pagès, Lluís Parcerisa, and Antoni Verger -- 10. Regulating the Labour Market for Professionals: A Case of "Smart" Organization, Valeria Pulignano, Silvia Lucciarini, and Luisa De Vit -- Part 3 -- 11. The Changing Nature of Profession-State Relations in Canada: The Struggle for Self-Regulation in Increasingly Hostile Social Environments, Tracey Adams -- 12. Tools and Targets of Activist Professionals: Theorizing Work in Professional Movements, Joris Gjata, Matthew Rowe, and Shawhin Roudbari -- 13. The Knowledge Society and the Emergence of New Professional Groups—A Case from Portugal, by Teresa Carvalho -- 14. Professions and Trust in Sweden. Alterations of Trust in Professional Work and Institutions in Recent Decades, Lennart Svensson and Kerstin Svensson -- Conclusions.

This article examines the role of institutional factors in shaping the integration paths of migrant health professionals. For this purpose, it draws on two studies focusing on Filipino and Indian nurses working in the UK, which rely on quantitative and qualitative methods, including a web survey and semi-structured interviews. The analysis shows that inequalities have arisen from differentiation processes induced by changes in the institutional settings. Furthermore, inequalities are often reflected in poor working conditions. The authors have identified restrictive rules on immigration and access to the profession as a source of uncertainty and reveal the differentiation of entry paths, with those arriving through an international recruitment agency more frequently disappointed with their working conditions.

L'articolo prende in esame i mutamenti nel settore del credito, cercando di coglierne i riflessi sulla rappresentanza del lavoro. Al fine di capire come sia affrontata la questione del cambiamento all'interno del sindacato, sono inoltre presentati i risultati di uno studio di caso su Fisac Toscana.

Crisi, malessere, frammentazione sociale sono temi ricorrenti nelle rappresentazioni dei ceti medi. Il volume, basato sui risultati di un'indagine sulla professione forense realizzata con il contributo del Consiglio dell'Ordine degli Avvocati di Firenze, approfondisce la questione collocandosi in un filone di studi che ha ripreso vigore all'interno del dibattito sociologico italiano e internazionale. Toccando una pluralità di temi e avvalendosi di metodi d'indagine misti, la ricerca ha permesso di verificare come situazioni occupazionali diverse si traducano in una distribuzione diseguale delle chances di vita e in differenti atteggiamenti verso la professione, la politica e la vita sociale, consentendo altresì di esplorare il ruolo svolto dall'avvocatura nei processi di cambiamento.

This article presents the findings of a comparative research study across five European countries on the role of servicing in the process of trade union renewal. The main aim is to transcend the dichotomy between servicing and organising with a view to revealing new renewal strategies. The study explores diverse forms of servicing based on the integration of various types of goods provided and logics of action. Specifically, it focuses on 'strategic' servicing, an approach that combines short-term responses to individual needs and long-term goals of collectivisation. The article introduces the notion of 'collectivising' services, targeting fragmented groups of workers to nurture a sense of community and establish channels of representation. It also offers a fresh perspective on trade union renewal, shedding light on the potential for trade unions to gain a more profound understanding of their repertoires of action and the impact of servicing on the construction of a collective dimension.

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After some promise in the 1990s, European unions have grown increasingly disillusioned with regard to the results of EU social policy and EU social dialogue. The paper analyses the extent and reasons of this disillusion by looking at the impact on social dialogue of the Active Inclusion Recommendation launched by the European Commission at the outset of the economic crisis in 2008. The Recommendation led to a tripartite framework agreement at the EU level in 2010 (the only such agreement in a decade), which was then to be implemented at national and regional levels. With a multilevel governance approach, the paper looks at the extent to which social dialogue on Active Inclusion at the EU level, in six EU countries (France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) and six regions (Rhône-Alpes, Lombardy, Lower Silesia, Catalonia, West Sweden and Greater Manchester) within those countries was somehow revitalised. The analysis, looking at both top-down and bottom-up processes and based on documentary analysis and interviews, shows that the initiative displays ambiguities similar to those of typical composite EU principles, such as famously the case of 'flexicurity'. The multilevel governance of the EU, including the interaction between 'soft' employment policies and evolving 'hard' Eurogovernance tools, and with poor horizontal and vertical coordination, resulted in multiple distortions of the principle and, over time, to frustration. Unions' engagement varies by level, country and region, reflecting both traditional national approaches and the local perception of 'active inclusion' as an opportunity. Although trade unions were more welcoming of 'active inclusion' than they had been for flexicurity, similar related threats and opportunities led to modest achievements and a gradual fading of the idea at the European and national levels, with some more opportunities however at the regional level. The paper concludes that, if trade unions want to engage with the idea of a European Social Model and with Eurogovernance, they could develop stronger networks among regional organisations.

The presence of massive stars (MSs) in the region close to the Galactic Centre (GC) poses several questions about their origin. The harsh environment of the GC favours specific formation scenarios, each of which should imprint characteristic kinematic features on the MSs. We present a 2D kinematic analysis of MSs in a GC region surrounding Sgr A* based on high-precision proper motions obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to a careful data reduction, well-measured bright stars in our proper-motion catalogues have errors better than 0.5 mas yr−1. We discuss the absolute motion of the MSs in the field and their motion relative to Sgr A*, the Arches, and the Quintuplet. For the majority of the MSs, we rule out any distance further than 3–4 kpc from Sgr A* using only kinematic arguments. If their membership to the GC is confirmed, most of the isolated MSs are likely not associated with either the Arches or Quintuplet clusters or Sgr A*. Only a few MSs have proper motions, suggesting that they are likely members of the Arches cluster, in agreement with previous spectroscopic results. Line-of-sight radial velocities and distances are required to shed further light on the origin of most of these massive objects. We also present an analysis of other fast-moving objects in the GC region, finding no clear excess of high-velocity escaping stars. We make our astro-photometric catalogues publicly available. ; ML and AB acknowledge support from STScI grants GO 12915 and 13771. DJL acknowledges support from the Spanish Government Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through grants PGC-2018-091 3741-B-C22 and from the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI), of the Canary Islands Government, and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), under grant with reference ProID2017010115. LRP acknowledges support from the Generalitat Valenciana through the grant PROMETEO/2019/041. LRB acknowledges partial support by MIUR under PRIN programme no. 2017Z2HSMF.