Anders Kjellberg

• Sweden: the Minimum Wage Directive is not visible in the debate on collective bargaining issues (Anna Fransson and Anders Kjellberg)

• Trade unions in Sweden 2025 – Updated statistical data (49 pages on trade unions, collective bargaining, labour conflicts)

• Chapter (together with Anna Fransson) "Collective bargaining and minimum wage regime in Sweden”. In Torsten Müller (ed.)Minimum wage regimes and collective bargaining in the EU: Country profiles and transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive (pp. 118-122). ETUI. 

• Article in Nordic Economic Policy Review 2025: Changes in union density in the Nordic countries

• Nordregio Conference in Stockholm 24 October 2024: Changes in union density in the Nordic countries: a presentation

• New updated and enlarged edition 2024 (1 181 pages): The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations
  Since the End of the Nineteenth Century

• German Bender & Anders Kjellberg: "Finland Rattled by Political Strikes Against the Conservative Governments’ Anti-Union Agenda"

• How policy can strengthen (multi-employer) collective bargaining in Europe: Sweden

• A comparison between the union movements in Sweden and France (extended French version): Le syndicalisme en France et en Suède: deux modèles contrastés

• Sharp Contrasts Between Swedish and French Trade Union Models

• New book about trade unions in the 27 EU members states. Swedish chapter: Trade unions in Sweden: still high union density, but widening gaps by social category and national origin

• Paper presented 9 March 2023 at the workshop "New trends and Challenges in Nordic Industrial Relations", Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne: The Nordic Model of Industrial Relations: comparing Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

• New book: Sustainable Work in Europe. Concepts, Conditions, Challenges. (Kenneth Abrahamsson & Richard Ennals eds.) Berlin: Peter Lang 2022. My chapter is “The shifting role of European unions in the social dialogue: Sweden in a comparative context". For more info about the book  

• The Nordic Model of Industrial Relations

• Anders Kjellberg & Kristine Nergaard (2022) “Union Density in Norway and Sweden: Stability versus Decline”, Nordic journal of working life studies. Special issue S8: Trade unions in the Nordic Labour Market Models – signs of erosion?

• German Bender & Anders Kjellberg (2021): ”A minimum-wage directive could undermine the Nordic model” Social Europe 13/7 2021

• European Approaches to Sustainable Work – Future Challenges: Workers, co-determination, social partners, and quality of work (28 May 2021)

• The shifting role of unions in the social dialogue, European Journal of Workplace Innovation. Special Double Issue: European Approaches to Sustainable Work, vol. 6 Issues 1-2, March 2021, pp. 220-244.

• Labour Migration from Third Country in the Restaurant and Cleaning Industries (Anders Kjellberg and Olle Frödin)

• Trade Unions, Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations (Anders Kjellberg):

* Density of employers' associations; union density among white-collar and blue-collar workers; density of unemployment funds

* Union density from an international perspective - see tables 2 and 54 here

* Coverage of collective agreements - see tables F and G in English appendix 3.

* Regulation by the labour market parties (self regulation) versus state regulation

* The Swedish labour market model from a historical and international perspective

* The Swedish Ghent System (government-supported union unemployment funds)

* Membership Development of Swedish Trade unions and Union Confederations since the End of the Nineteenth Century

FOUR VOLUMES ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE 28 EU COUNTRIES.

Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame (eds. Torsten Müller, Kurt Vandaele & Jeremy Waddington).European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels 2019. Anders Kjellberg has written the swedish chapter Sweden: collective bargaining under the industry norm, which is to be found in volume III (pp. 583-604). For more information.

Olle Frödin & Anders Kjellberg (2018) “Labor Migration from Third Countries to Swedish Low-wage Jobs”, Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, vol. 8 no 1 (March 2018), pp. 65-85.

About the Research Project: Labour Migration, Trade Unions and Employers: Summary of the Results

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN SWEDISH TRADE UNIONS SINCE THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Read the new report The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century Department of Sociology, Lund University: Studies in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life and Mobility. Research Reports 2017:2 (Updated 2024)

SELF-REGULATION VERSUS STATE REGULATION

Anders Kjellberg has contributed with a chapter in Mia Rönnmar and Jenny Julén Votinius (eds.) Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning (Juristförlaget i Lund 2017, pp. 357-383): Self-regulation versus State Regulation in Swedish Industrial Relations.  

THE DANISH AND SWEDISH LABOUR MARKET MODELS COMPARED

Den danske model set udefra - komparative perspektiverpå dansk arbejdsmarkedsregulering (Trine Pernille Larsen & Anna Ilsøe edS.). København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag 2016. Information about the book including contents. Chapter by Anders Kjellberg & Christian Lyhne Ibsen "Attacks on union organizing: Reversible and irreversible changes to the Ghent-systems in Sweden and Denmark" (pp. 279-302).

NORDIC LIGHTS

A New World of Work Challenging Swedish Unions (by Anders Bruhn, Anders Kjellberg & Åke Sandberg) in Åke Sandberg (ed.) Nordic Lights. Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia (SNS 2013, pp. 126-186).

SWEDISH UNION DENSITY

The Decline in Swedish Union Density since 2007Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies (NJWLS) Vol. 1. No 1 (August 2011), pp. 67-93.

More recent data on Swedish union density Kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad samt organisationsgraden hos arbetsgivarförbund och fackförbund, (The Coverage of Collective Agreements, Union Density and Density of Employers’ Associations), Department of Sociology, Lund University: Studies in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life and Mobility. Research Reports 2019:1. Appendix 3 in English. Updated in June 2023.