“…We then move to the UK, where instead all FoR are well established -even predating Fox's categorisation, as Hyman's (1978) widely debated 'pluralism's pluralism' illustrates. Such debates, however, have largely overlooked the connections between employment relations and social policy, focusing on the former for three reasons: an intellectual tradition marked by workplace case study (McGovern, 2020); some reluctance, justified by the Oxford pluralist school with the reference to 'voluntarism', to appreciate the state-political arena (Ackers and Wilkinson, 2005;Howell, 2005); the presence of critical thinkers reproducing a rather 'orthodox' version of Marxist thought, interested in economic militancy at the shopfloor level but overlooking those broader links between work and society that inspired Gramscian and Eurocommunist approaches (Ackers and Wilkinson, 2005;Ackers, 2014). Finally, the last intellectual mainstream relates to corporatist theories, largely about Continental Europe.…”