The Swedish Trade Union System in Transition: High but Falling Union Density
Författare
Redaktör
- Craig Phelan
Summary, in English
The chapter on Sweden in this book on trade union revitalisation in 34 countries analyzes the Swedish model of industrial relations and its current challenges, among them the falling union density. The recent development of industrial relations is characterized in terms of a new mix of decentralisation and centralisation and of self-regulation and state regulation.
Contents of the Swedish chapter:
1. Introduction
2. Separate White-Collar Unions and Confederations
3. Combined Centralisation and Decentralisation
4. Self-Regulation
5. Union Unemployment Funds
6. Very High but Declining Union Density
7. Declining Coverage of Union Workplace Organisations
8. A New Mix of Decentralisation and Centralisation, and of Self-Regulation and State Regulation
9. Other Challenges to Unions
10. Union Responses and Future Prospects
Contents of the Swedish chapter:
1. Introduction
2. Separate White-Collar Unions and Confederations
3. Combined Centralisation and Decentralisation
4. Self-Regulation
5. Union Unemployment Funds
6. Very High but Declining Union Density
7. Declining Coverage of Union Workplace Organisations
8. A New Mix of Decentralisation and Centralisation, and of Self-Regulation and State Regulation
9. Other Challenges to Unions
10. Union Responses and Future Prospects
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
259-286
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Trade Union Revitalisation: Trends and Prospects in 34 Countries
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Peter Lang Publishing Group
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- Swedish model
- TCO
- sociology
- arbetsliv
- state regulation
- arbetsmarknad
- centralisation
- union movement
- decentralisation
- sociologi
- industrial relations
- trade unions
- a-kassa
- facklig organisationsgrad
- blue-collar workers
- union unemployment fund
- SACO
- fackförening
- Ghent system
- white-collar workers
- fackförbund
- LO
- self-regulation
- union density
- sociologiska institutionen
- department of sociology
- svenska modellen
Status
Published
Projekt
- Union Density in a Global Perspective
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-3-03911-009-4