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.

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淘汰旧的，引进新的？英国的制度实验和体面工作

本文借鉴英国大曼彻斯特 (GM) 城市地区的扩展关键案例研究，引发了围绕当地劳动力市场中社会参与者角色变化以及他们如何为监管实验和创新过程做出贡献的辩论。虽然最近的文献引起了人们对应对劳动力市场混乱的新行动者和新策略的关注，但在本文中，作者认为，在捍卫和推进体面最低标准方面，嵌入行动者和既定做法仍然有空间。这可以通过政治游说、工作场所组织、工业行动、将集体商定的标准扩展到外包工人，或通过工会与社区运动的混合形式来实现。在劳动力市场放松管制的更广泛背景下，作者的案例研究指出，冲突与合作的流动性和具体情况不断增加，这些冲突与合作塑造了劳动力市场的“规范”，并使地方而非国家内部的特定进步事业合法化。资本主义。