The Swedish industrial relations transformation during the 1970s – abolishing neutrality and affecting the deep structure

Henrik Lindberg

No 249, Ratio Working Papers from The Ratio Institute

Abstract: Industrial Relations systems are essentially a nexus of contracts between different actors: Government, employer’s organizations and unions first and foremost. The Swedish labour market model was based on the concept of Government neutrality ie: non-partisanship and non-intervention from the early 20th century. Did the interventionist state during the 1970s change the fundamentals of the Swedish model? I argue that it did. The argument is based on an empirical investigation that comes from the concept “Frontier of Control”. If we take five dimensions: Occupational safety, Determination in work-place issues, Employment and dismissals, Strikes and industrial conflicts and lastly Determination in company issues, the power relations changed fundamentally in the 1970s with the labour law legislation and was ultimately part of a paradigmatic change in Swedish IR.

Keywords: Industrial Relations; labour law legislation; Government neutrality; political radicalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J53 J58 K31 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2014-12-31
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