Drifting with Claudio

Received: 27 September 2005 Revised: 28 September 2005 Accepted: 29 September 2005 I first met Claudio in Oslo around 1980. Like so many others we met because of Kristen Nygaard. At this time Claudio spent some months at the University of Oslo as a visiting scholar doing research (together with Leslie Schneider) on the practical impacts of the ‘data agreements’ between the Norwegian trade unions and the employers’ association. At that time I was a masters student. I cannot remember that we talked to each other, but I remember his presence in the corridor – always very visible. Next time we met was 15 years later when Bo Dahlbom invited Claudio to Gothenburg to attend a seminar within a project I also was involved in. We met again a year later when Claudio was invited to spend the fall term in 1996 as Visiting Professor in Gothenburg.