The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main policy issue addressed by the authors is how the trend of collective bargaining’s decreasing importance can be turned. Professor Anders Kjellberg has written the chapter about Sweden, titled “Sweden: collective bargaining under the industry norm”.

“Sweden has the most socially segregated union movement in the world, with separate blue-collar and white-collar national unions and confederations. There is a similar pattern in the other Nordic countries, but not as consistently as in Sweden. Like Denmark and Finland, two other Nordic countries with a Ghent system, Sweden has a high but declining union density.”

Read Anders Kjellberg’s chapter (including an extra appendix) in its entirety.

The rest of the tome is available at the European Trade Union Institute.

Anders Kjellberg’s personal page at the Department of Sociology.