Società editrice il Mulino it 1120-947X La cortina di fumo The Author analyzes the debate on the necessity of reshaping the contract of employment legislation. The call for reform of labour law appears to be a consequence of the fact that the utility itself of work as human activity is under trial. Gérard Lyon-Caen 1997 10.1441/4396 10.1441/4396 1 335 338 Il diritto del lavoro alla prova del cambiamento The Author analyzes the evolution of employment legislation in France over the last fifteen years. He associates the recent changes in labour law with the loss of legitimization that this piece of legislation undergoes as a result of its being considered as one of the causes of unemployment. The Author examines, in turn, the role of collective bargaining and the influence of public employment policies in the evolution of labour law. He describes the changes in employment legislation as the end result of three tendencies: the rise of a "right to work", the increased flexibility in the use of manpower, the development of the rights of personality within the labour law relationship. As regard the future perspectives of labour law, and the calls for deregulation of the employment relationship, the Author pin points that the regulative function of labour law cannot be removed. Antoine Jeammaud 1997 10.1441/4397 10.1441/4397 2 339 370 L'Europa dei lavoratori autonomi: uno spazio con troppe frontiere Luisa Antoniolli Deflorian, Luca Nogler 1997 10.1441/4398 10.1441/4398 3 371 402 La libera circolazione delle professioni liberali: il caso degli avvocati Luisa Antoniolli Deflorian 1997 10.1441/4399 10.1441/4399 4 403 422 L'autonomia dei direttori generali tra diritto del lavoro e diritto delle società Vittorio Santoro 1997 10.1441/4400 10.1441/4400 5 423 440 La dimensione collettiva nella "società dei lavori" The paper discusses trade unions' role in the "jobs society" where the traditional patterns of intervention founded upon a strong commitment for egalitarianism are declining. New forms of work, in many cases placed in an area traditionally considered of self-employment, urge the industrial unions to revise the idea of solidarity as a resource that must be built. Fabrizio Bano 1997 10.1441/4401 10.1441/4401 6 441 454 Il patto per il lavoro: quale lavoro? According to the Author, legislation for work is not a new dogmatic category. It comes after the contract of employment legislation, but it overtakes it in order to create a right to work. The right to work is a constitutive element of citizenship, it is to a certain extent a sort of obligation of solidarity, and it is promoted by the contract of employment legislation. Umberto Romagnoli 1997 10.1441/4402 10.1441/4402 7 455 468 La partecipazione dei lavoratori in una prospettiva storica: i Consigli di gestione Between the end of the II World War and the beginning of the '50s the industrial regions of Italy witnessed one of the most significant experience of workers participation in the enterprise: the Consigli di gestione (a sort of workers-management councils). Their short and tumultuous existence was greatly affected by the though conflict - with the involvement of the main social and political forces - on both the nature of the enterprise and the role that the workers can play within it. In this article, the Author highlights the salient points of that event, to emphasize the conflicting dynamics in which the working class, its political and union organizations and employers defined - not without great contradictions - their ideologies and strategic action. Some of the main constitutional and specific aspects of the Italian industrial relation system were built up around the historical experience of the Consigli di gestione. Therefore, it is not by chance that their importance has influenced subsequent decades, conditioning the theoretical and political evolution of the dispute about industrial democracy during the whole period of the Fordist development of the Italian enterprise. Salvo Leonardi 1997 10.1441/4403 10.1441/4403 8 469 492 Contrattare il telelavoro Telework is an expanding working pattern made feasible by the reducing costs and increasing performance of computers and telecommunications. Telework is an attractive option for employers, but it can also have advantages for employees: a more flexible working life enables people to combine work with other responsibilities which they could not carry out at the traditional workplace. However, bargaining and legislative coverage of telework is, specially in Italy, just at an initial stage. Perhaps, there is evidence that some trade unions start showing sophistication and creativity in their response to telework. In this paper, the Author examines contracts and codes on teleworking developed in Australia, UK, Canada, France and Italy. The objective of this analysis is that of trying to identify common issues and solutions that could generate a "Code of practices" on telework to be successfully adopted in Italy. Patrizio Di Nicola 1997 10.1441/4404 10.1441/4404 9 493 520 Ludovico Barassi (1873-1961) Lorenzo Gaeta 1997 10.1441/4405 10.1441/4405 10 521 534