Peer-review publications
Benassi, C. (2023). Societal institutions and contradictions in the workplace: A comparative analysis of lean management systems in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Organization Studies, 01708406231203296.
Benassi, Chiara (lead author), Durazzi, Niccolo’ and Fortwengel, Johann (2022) “Comparative institutional disadvantage: Small firms and vocational training in the British manufacturing sector in comparative perspective”, British Journal of Industrial Relations 60:2.
Benassi, Chiara and Vlandas, Tim (2021) “Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany”, Work, Employment and Society 36:6.
Benassi, Chiara and Durazzi, Niccolo’(2021) “The role of labour in the dualization of the German labour market and VET system: a review”, Invited contribution to the Special Issue “Forms of Dualization and their Change: A Comparative Analysis” in Sociologia del Lavoro.
Benassi, Chiara and Kornelakis, Andreas (2021) “How Do Employers Choose Between Different Types of Nonstandard Work? Costs, Control and Institutional Toying“, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 74:3.
Benassi, Chiara and Dorigatti, Lisa (2020) “Out of sight, out of mind: Collective bargaining along the value chain in the German and Italian manufacturing sector”, Work, Employment and Society 34:6.
Benassi, Chiara, Dorigatti, Lisa and Pannini, Elisa (2019) “The role of labour divides and labour market reforms for collective bargaining on agency work. The case of the metal sector in Germany and Italy”, European Journal of Industrial Relations 25:2.
Baccaro, L., Benassi, C. and Meardi, G. (2019) “Introduction to the Special Issue: Analysing the Relationship between Trade Unions and Democracy”, Economic and Industrial Democracy 40:3.
Durazzi, Niccolo’ and Benassi, Chiara (2018) “Going up-skill: Exploring the transformation of the German skill formation system” invited paper for the Special Issue „Imbalanced at the Core: Rethinking the German Model”, German Politics.
Benassi, C (2017) “Varieties of Workplace Dualization: A study of agency work in the German automotive industry”, Industrial Relations Journal 48:5-6.
Baccaro, L., Benassi, C. (2017) “Throwing Out the Ballast? Growth Models and the Liberalization of German Industrial Relations”, Socio-Economic Review 15(1).
Benassi, C. (2016) “Liberalization Only at the Margins? Analyzing the Growth of Temporary Work in German Core Manufacturing Sectors”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 54:3.
Benassi, C., Doellgast, V. and Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K. (2016) “Institutions and Inequality in Liberalizing Markets: Explaining Different Trajectories of Institutional Change in Social Europe”, Politics&Society 44:3.
Doellgast, V., Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K. and Benassi, C. (2016): “Institutions, Stakeholder Negotiations, and the Restructuring of Organizational Boundaries: A Cross-National Comparison”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 69(3).
Benassi, C. and Vlandas, T. (2016) “Union inclusiveness and temporary agency workers: The role of power resources and union ideology”,European Journal of Industrial Relations 22:1. Cited in the OECD Employment Outlook 2019.
Benassi, C. and Dorigatti, L. (2015): “Straight to the Core: Explaining Union Responses to the Casualization of Work”, British Journal of Industrial Relations 53(3). Cited in the OECD Employment Outlook 2019.
Baccaro, L. and Benassi, C. (2014): “Softening Institutions, Hardening Growth Model: The Transformation of the German Political Economy”, Stato&Mercato 34:3.
Book chapters
Benassi, Chiara, Ibsen, Christian and Tapia, Maite (forthcoming in 2024) “Forms of Unionism” in Gall, Gregor “The Handbook of Labour Unions”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
Benassi, C. and Dorigatti, L. (2018) “The Political Economy of Agency Work in Italy and Germany: A Multi-Level Framework to Explain Diverging Bargaining Outcomes”, Doellgast, V. et al. (eds.), “Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe”.Oxford University Press, Oxford [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publishers/oxford-univerity-press-oxford(b51bebb7-66c8-401e-a140-7c3672cfc830).html] .
Benassi, C. and Tekeste, M. (2018) “Employment and Precarious Work in Wilkinson, A. et al. (eds) “The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations”, Routledge, New York.
Baccaro, L. and Benassi, C. (2017) “Softening Institutions: The Liberalization of German Industrial Relations” in Baccaro, L. and Howell, C. (Eds), “European Industrial Relations: Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Cited in the OECD Employment Outlook 2018.
Benassi, C. (2015): From concession bargaining to broad workplace solidarities: The IG Metall response to agency work in Drahokoupil, J. (ed.). “The outsourcing challenge: Organising workers across fragmented production networks“, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.
Doellgast, V., Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K. and Benassi, C. (2015) Union campaigns to organize across production networks in the European telecommunications industry: lessons from the UK, Italy, Sweden and Poland in Drahokoupil, J. (ed.). “The outsourcing challenge: Organising workers across fragmented production networks“, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.
Doellgast, V. and Benassi, C. (2014/2020): Collective Bargaining and Voice in Wilkinson A. Donaghey, J., Dundon, T. and Freeman, R. “The Handbook of Research on Employee Voice: Participation and Involvement in the Workplace”, Edward Elgar. Cited in the ILO Social Dialogue Report 2022.
Working papers
Benassi, C., Durazzi, N. and Fortwengel, J. (2020): “Not all firms are created equal: SMEs and vocational training in the UK, Italy, and Germany“ MPIfG Discussion Paper. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society, Cologne.
Benassi, Chiara (2013): “Political economy of labour market segmentation: agency work in the automotive industry” ETUI Discussion Paper 2013.06, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels.
Benassi, Chiara (2011): “The Implementation of Minimum Wage: Challenges and Creative Solutions”, Working Paper No. 12, International Labour Office and Global Labour University, Geneva. Cited by the OECD Employment Outlook 2017 and by the German Minimum Wage Commission:
http://www.mindestlohn-kommission.de/DE/Bericht/pdf/Bericht2016.html?nn=7916938
Reports
Benassi, Chiara and Frangi, Lorenzo (2019) Agency Workers and Trade Unions: International Comparisons and Strategy Insights. Report for the Canadian Union Unifor.
Benassi, Chiara (2019) Skills at work. The development and use of skills in the automotive industry. Final Stakeholder Report. ESRC Grant - ESN01605X1.
Benassi, Chiara and Dorigatti, Lisa (2017) “Collective bargaining along the value chain: A comparison between the Italian and the German metal sector”, Final project report, Hans Boeckler Stiftung Grant.
Doellgast, Virginia, Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, Katja and Benassi, Chiara (2013): “Alternative Routes to Good Jobs in the Service Economy. Employment Restructuring and Human Resource Management in Incumbent Telecommunication Firms”, Final Project Report ESRC Grant RES-061-25-0444.
Book reviews
Benassi, Chiara (2018): “The Marketization of Employment Services. The Dilemmas of Europe’s Work-First Welfare State“ edited by Ian Greer, Karen N.Breidahl, Matthias Knuth and Flemming Larsen. Industrial and Labor Relations Review: online.
Benassi, Chiara (2016): “Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets. An Occupational Perspective“ edited by Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx, British Journal of Industrial Relations 54(1): 245-47.
Benassi, Chiara (2015): “The Comparative Political Economy of Work”, edited by Marco Hauptmeier and Matt Vidal, British Journal of Industrial Relations 53 (2), 378-379.
Benassi, Chiara (2012): “The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class” by Guy Standing, British Journal of Industrial Relations 50(4), 810–811.
