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Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Anders Kjellberg

Professor Emeritus

Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Trade unions in Sweden: still high union density, but widening gaps by social category and national origin

Author

  • Anders Kjellberg

Editor

  • Jeremy Waddington
  • Torsten Müller
  • Kurt Vandaele

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2023-06-15

Language

English

Pages

1051-1092

Publication/Series

Travail et Société / Work and Society

Volume

86

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • trade union
  • Sweden
  • EU
  • industrial relations
  • union density
  • LO
  • TCO
  • Saco
  • self-regulation
  • state regulation
  • collective agreement
  • industry norm
  • trade unions
  • Sweden
  • collective bargaining
  • industrial relations
  • sociology
  • self-regulation
  • state regulation
  • union density
  • industry norm
  • collective agreement
  • LO
  • TCO
  • Saco
  • IF Metall
  • conflict fund
  • Swedish model
  • labour law
  • blue-collar workers
  • white-collar workers
  • Industry Agreement
  • industrial conflict
  • strikes
  • conflict funds
  • Kommunal

Status

Published

Project

  • Trade Unions in Europe (27 EU countries)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-2-87574-634-4