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Summing up the results of the research on the regulation of work in small firms, the concluding chapter prompts reflection on the extent to which they can also apply to larger firms—better, to all firms, more generally. This leads to a reconceptualisation of what we mean by employment relations, which are finally reinterpreted as a field characterised by the combination of two fundamental tensions: that between informality and formality in the definition of rules and practices and that between closure to the inside and openness to the outside in identifying the range of action and acquisition of the resources necessary for regulation. The crucial question becomes the conditions under which recourse to informality is not reduced to a merely unilateral exercise of power.
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Regalia, I. (2020). Prospects for Employment Relations: Between Informal and Formal and Inside and Outside. In: Regalia, I. (eds) Regulating Work in Small Firms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21820-1_6
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