Serafino Negrelli is Professor of Sociology of Work and Economic Processes at the University of Milano Bicocca. He has been involved in many international research projects analysing the social consequences of globalisation. Recent publications include: «The territorial pacts in Italy: the competitive corporatism assumption in question, in R. Salais, R. Villeneuve (eds.), Europe and the Politics of Capabilities (2004); «Change in contemporary Italy's social concertation (with Valeria Pulignano), in Industrial Relations Journal (Vol. 39, 1, 2008); Sociologia del lavoro (2009, 3rd ed...