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Stefano Gasparri's Outputs (15)

Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs? (2025)
Book Chapter

Seeking to clarify what trade unions brought to the promotion of EDI in Italy with the support of three metaphors drawn from the employment relations literature—‘bread and butter’, ‘bread and roses’, and ‘just breadcrumbs’—this chapter provides a his... Read More about Trade unions and equality, diversity, and inclusion in Italy: Bread and butter, bread and roses, or just breadcrumbs?.

Digitalization and employment relations in the retail sector. Examining the role of trade unions in Italy and Spain (2023)
Journal Article

This article investigates trade union responses to in-store digitalization in retail in Italy and Spain. It considers critical issues often associated with the digital transformation of work including excessive work flexibility, high levels of monito... Read More about Digitalization and employment relations in the retail sector. Examining the role of trade unions in Italy and Spain.

How to expand the role of employers in firm networks?: Lessons from collective bargaining with the property of outlet malls in Italy (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the role employers play in firm networks and with which implications for the management of the employment relationship. It acknowledges the main challenge as the extent to which the reconfiguration of business activities along f... Read More about How to expand the role of employers in firm networks?: Lessons from collective bargaining with the property of outlet malls in Italy.

Employee benefits and paternalistic work regimes: Historical and contemporary perspectives on company welfare in Italy (2020)
Journal Article

This article examines the changing role of employee benefits in work regimes in light of the controversies associated with paternalism. We review historical (industrial, scientific, bureaucratic and sophisticated) and recent (libertarian) variants of... Read More about Employee benefits and paternalistic work regimes: Historical and contemporary perspectives on company welfare in Italy.

Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization? (2018)
Journal Article

We investigate trade union strategies in fashion retail, a sector with endemic low-wages, precarity and a representation gap. Unions in Milan organized ‘zero-hours contract’ workers, while their counterparts in New York established an alternative cha... Read More about Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization?.

Studying work in theory and practice: Insights for a globalising academia from the IR trajectory in Italy (2017)
Journal Article

This article investigates the relevance of context to the study of industrial relations by analysing the trajectory of an under-researched case outside the Anglo-Saxon hotspots, Italy. Three phases are put under the spotlight revealing a trajectory a... Read More about Studying work in theory and practice: Insights for a globalising academia from the IR trajectory in Italy.