Ida Regalia is Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Milan and past president of the Institute of Economic and Social Research IRES Lombardia, Milan. Her research is in the ?elds of comparative industrial relations, trade unionism and labour policies.

• 1. New Forms of Employment and New Problems of Regulation 2. Flexible Arrangements within Companies: Strengths and Weaknesses 3. Building Local Institutional Arrangements for Flexicurity in France 4. Non-Standard Employment: Experiments in Regulation at the Local Level in Germany 5. Between Institutionalized Concertation and Experimentation: The Regulation of New Forms of Employment in Lombardy 6. Inclusion Strategies: Regulating Non-Standard Employment in the ‘Third Italy’ 7. Catalonia: The Difficulty of Transferring Locally Concerted Solutions into Firms 8. The West Midlands: A Mixture of Promising and Faltering Steps 9. What Regulation for the New Forms of Employment?

Ida Regalia is Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Milan and past president of the Institute of Economic and Social Research IRES Lombardia, Milan. Her research is in the ?elds of comparative industrial relations, trade unionism and labour policies.

• 1. New Forms of Employment and New Problems of Regulation 2. Flexible Arrangements within Companies: Strengths and Weaknesses 3. Building Local Institutional Arrangements for Flexicurity in France 4. Non-Standard Employment: Experiments in Regulation at the Local Level in Germany 5. Between Institutionalized Concertation and Experimentation: The Regulation of New Forms of Employment in Lombardy 6. Inclusion Strategies: Regulating Non-Standard Employment in the ‘Third Italy’ 7. Catalonia: The Difficulty of Transferring Locally Concerted Solutions into Firms 8. The West Midlands: A Mixture of Promising and Faltering Steps 9. What Regulation for the New Forms of Employment?

Ida Regalia is Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Milan and past president of the Institute of Economic and Social Research IRES Lombardia, Milan. Her research is in the ?elds of comparative industrial relations, trade unionism and labour policies.

• 1. New Forms of Employment and New Problems of Regulation 2. Flexible Arrangements within Companies: Strengths and Weaknesses 3. Building Local Institutional Arrangements for Flexicurity in France 4. Non-Standard Employment: Experiments in Regulation at the Local Level in Germany 5. Between Institutionalized Concertation and Experimentation: The Regulation of New Forms of Employment in Lombardy 6. Inclusion Strategies: Regulating Non-Standard Employment in the ‘Third Italy’ 7. Catalonia: The Difficulty of Transferring Locally Concerted Solutions into Firms 8. The West Midlands: A Mixture of Promising and Faltering Steps 9. What Regulation for the New Forms of Employment?