The Swedish Model of Industrial Relations: Self-Regulation and Combined Centralisation-Decentralisation

Anders Kjellberg

The Swedish Model of Industrial Relations: Self-Regulation and Combined Centralisation-Decentralisation

Sociology

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Abstract

The Swedish model of industrial relations is analyzed with respect to some closely related dimensions: collective agreements - legislation, cooperation - confrontation, self-regulation - state regulation and centralisation - decentralisation. Both the historical development and the present state of the model are discussed. In an analytical table the dimension self-regulation - state regulation is combined with the dimension centralisation - decentralisation. A distinction is made between self-regulation on the part of unions AND employers' associations (bipartite self-regulation) and on the other hand on the part of unions OR employers' associations (unilateral self-regulation). By that the four fields of the table are extended to six fields. The development in the last 10-15 years is described as a "new mix of self-regulation and state regulation and of centralisation and decentralisation".

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Trade Unionism since 1945: Towards a Global History
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Editors	Craig Phelan
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Peter Lang Publishing Group
Pages	155-198
Number of pages	44
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-03911-410-8
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Bibliographical note

<a href=http://www.soc.lu.se/anders-kjellberg>Anders Kjellbergs hemsida</a>


This book is one of two volumes on the history of trade unionism from a global perspective. It contains chapters on a number of countries in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It is publihed as volume 1 in the series Trade Unions Past, Present and Future.

<a href=http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=11410&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
>Mer information om boken</a>


ERRATA:
The Swedish Mediation Office (Mediation Institute) was founded in the year 2000 (not in 2001 as mentioned at pp. 156, 164 and 185).

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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)

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arbetsliv
sociology
state regulation
centralisation
union movement
employer association
Saltsjöbaden
decentralisation
collective agreement
global
sociologi
industrial relations
a-kassa
trade unions
facklig organisationsgrad
blue-collar workers
union unemployment fund
SACO
Ghent system
fackförening
white-collar workers
LO
svenska modellen
fackförbund
industrial agreement
labour legislation
arbetsmarknad
co-determination
TCO
Swedish model
self-regulation
union density
department of sociology
sociologiska institutionen
centralised bargaining
solidaristic wage policy
employment protection

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3 Book chapter
2 Article
1 Paper, not in proceeding

Self-regulation versus State Regulation in Swedish Industrial Relations
Kjellberg, A., 2017 Mar 23, Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning. Rönnmar, M. & Julén Votinius, J. (eds.). Lund: Juristförlaget i Lund, p. 357-383 27 p.
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Attacks on union organizing: Reversible and irreversible changes to the Ghent-systems in Sweden and Denmark
Kjellberg, A. & Lyhne Ibsen, C., 2016 Sept 6, Den Danske Model set udefra - komparative perspektiver på dansk arbejdsmarkedsregulering : Et festskrif t til professor emeritus Jesper Due og og professor emeritus Jørgen Steen Madsen. Larsen, T. P. & Ilsøe , A. (eds.). København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, p. 279-302 24 p.
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The Decline in Swedish Union Density since 2007
Kjellberg, A., 2011, In: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. 1, 1, p. 67-93 27 p.
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Union Density in a Global Perspective
Kjellberg, A. (Researcher)
2006/01/01 → 2011/12/31
Project: Research

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The Swedish Model of Industrial Relations: Self-Regulation and Combined Centralisation-Decentralisation. / Kjellberg, Anders.
Trade Unionism since 1945: Towards a Global History: Volume 1: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ed. / Craig Phelan. Vol. 1 Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2009. p. 155-198.

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The Swedish Model of Industrial Relations: Self-Regulation and Combined Centralisation-Decentralisation

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Publication series

Bibliographical note

Subject classification (UKÄ)

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UN SDGs

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Self-regulation versus State Regulation in Swedish Industrial Relations

Attacks on union organizing: Reversible and irreversible changes to the Ghent-systems in Sweden and Denmark

The Decline in Swedish Union Density since 2007

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Union Density in a Global Perspective

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