La Concertazione sociale travecchienuovimodelli

The first chapter deals with corporatism, designed as a model of representation of interests of different economic actors oligopoly based about few representative organizations of a public nature. It shows how, after the removal of some thirty years, more due to an antifascist than an actual give up completely of the concept, the term corporatism appears again in the early eighties as a result of concerted practices between government, unions and associations business.The following chapter contains the core of the thesis. Is exploring the nature of social partnership: the evolution of the model and the search for its legal foundations. Illustrates the difficulty, in the absence of specific legislative references, to find a definition of dialogue that contains all the nuances of the relations of trade union participation in negotiations with the authorities. It is clear that consultation is vague concept in both the sociological and legal terms.The interdisciplinary approach of the phenomenon defines the most varied forms of negotiation with the unions complicating the definition.In the following chapter discusses the link between consultation and collective bargaining when the State attempts to inform the social partners the lines of cost containment and level of the salary to be defined in negotiations. From this perspective we can appreciate how the social partnership has been established also in terms of help, or prepare for a negotiation response to periods of economic crisis or implementation of the information contained in the reforms of the legislation. The last part of the thesis looks at new models of social partners involvement in decision-making in the economic and social development. In particular, reference is made, first, to the model of social dialogue as it has developed at Community level, on the other hand, the idea of playing a national model of collective relations based on the need to achieve levels of competitiveness and productivity, combined with increased rates of employment.Finally are taken into account the guidelines of the White Paper on European Governance and the impact on EU and national employment law.