ABSTRACT
Based on a cross-national ethnography, the chapter describes the interactions of traditional collective actors representing employees with alternative actors organising solo self-employed (SSE) workers in six European countries. Using the concept of framing, it analyses the impact of these interactions on the organisational discourses and practices of individual organisations and on the transformation of the entire industrial relations system. The findings show that the strengthening relations between traditional and alternative actors stimulate the emergence of SSE workers’ collective representation, although to a different extent, in all national contexts, from more centralised and consolidated industrial relations systems to more fragmented and decentralised ones.
