Migrant precarity and future challenges to labour standards in Sweden

Charles Woolfson, Judy Fudge and Christer Thörnqvist
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Charles Woolfson: Linköping University, Sweden
Judy Fudge: University of Kent, UK
Christer Thörnqvist: Linköping University, Sweden

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2014, vol. 35, issue 4, 695-715

Abstract: Fears of a ‘race to the bottom’ in labour standards may have been overstated. Nevertheless, using Sweden as a case study, it is argued that the diminished capacity of trade unions to defend labour standards following the Laval judgement of the European Court of Justice, together with a decline in trade union density, a limited remit of enforcement authorities and recent changes to the Swedish labour migration regime, may have detrimental impacts on labour standards, particularly in low-skill low-wage occupations. In combination, these developments are creating new spaces for migrant precariousness within the context of a formerly well-regulated Swedish labour market model.

Keywords: Labour standards; Laval case; migrant labour; posted workers; 2008 Swedish migration reform; Swedish model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13494249

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