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Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Anders Kjellberg

Professor Emeritus

Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Sweden: Restoring the Model?

Author

  • Anders Kjellberg

Editor

  • Anthony Ferner
  • Richard Hyman

Summary, in English

Since the mid-1960s Swedish industrial relations have undergone such fundamental changes that the very existence of a 'Swedish model' is now questioned. Nevertheless, given the continuing similarities between Nordic countries, and the differences between them as a group and other European countries, the notion of a 'Nordic model' of industrial relations still has descriptive and analytic value. First, therefore, the broad outlines of the 'Nordic model' will be presented. The main focus of the chapter, however, is on Swedish industrial relations: the roots of the 'historic compromise' between capital and labour in the 1930s, and the erosion of the Swedish model of 'self-regulation' and centralised bargaining by increased state intervention and pressures to decentralisation.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

1998

Language

English

Pages

74-117

Publication/Series

Changing Industrial Relations in Europe (Blackwell Business)

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

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

Keywords

  • sociologiska institutionen
  • department of sociology
  • sociology
  • white-collar
  • sociologi
  • strike
  • trade union
  • Swedish model
  • lockout
  • employer strategy
  • collective agreement
  • decentralization
  • Rehnberg agreement
  • medarbetaravtal
  • corporatism
  • collective bargaining
  • SAF
  • co-determination
  • workplace organization
  • union density
  • union confederation
  • work organization
  • national union
  • Saltsjöbaden Agreement
  • TCO
  • SACO
  • blue-collar
  • wage formation
  • LO
  • Nordic model
  • fackförening
  • state regulation
  • Self-regulation
  • svenska modellen
  • arbetsmarknad
  • industrial relations
  • arbetsliv

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 0-631-20551-9