The paper addresses the endurance of sector collective bargaining despite many announcements of its demise. Bourdieusian social theory is used to interpret collective bargaining as a dominated social field that is distinct and relatively autonomous from other economic, political and transnational fields. Empirically, we trace the trajectories of German and Italian metal sector’s collective bargaining fields. In Germany, field agents contributed to a continuing erosion of collective bargaining, regional differentiation of membership strategies, and a reorientation of dominated employers’ associations towards their members. In Italy, some field agents resisted supranational and national liberalization demands and contributed to the adaptation and innovation of bargaining practices and hence, to the preliminary re-stabilization and re-balancing of collective bargaining between industry and company level.

尽管有许多宣布废止该协议的内容，但该论文还是探讨了部门集体谈判的持久性。布迪厄斯社会理论被用来解释集体谈判是一个与其他经济，政治和跨国领域截然不同且相对自治的主导社会领域。从经验上讲，我们追踪了德国和意大利金属部门的集体谈判领域的轨迹。在德国，外勤特工导致集体谈判的持续侵蚀，会员策略的区域差异以及主导的雇主协会对其会员的重新定位。在意大利，一些外勤特工抵制了超国家和国家自由化的要求，并促进了议价惯例的适应和创新，因此，