Out with the old, in with the new? Institutional experimentation and decent work in the UK
基于英国大曼彻斯特地区的案例研究，探讨地方劳动力市场中传统行动者如何通过政治游说、工会组织等方式维护体面工作标准，对关注劳动市场制度创新的学者有参考价值。
Drawing on an extended critical case study of the Greater Manchester (GM) city region in the UK, this article contributes to debates around the changing role of social actors within local labour markets, and how they contribute to processes of regulatory experimentation and innovation. While recent literature has drawn attention to new actors and novel strategies in responding to labour market disruptions, in this article the authors argue that there is still room for embedded actors and established practices in defending, and advancing, decent minimum standards. This may be through political lobbying, workplace organising, industrial action, extending collectively agreed standards to outsourced workers, or through hybrid forms of trade union-community campaigning. Against a wider background of labour market de-regulation, the authors' case study points to the layering up of increasingly fluid and context-specific repertoires of conflict and cooperation that shape labour market 'norms' and legitimise particular progressive causes within local rather than national capitalisms.