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- Title
IN SEARCH OF NEW RELATIONSHIPS: PARTIES, UNIONS, AND SALARIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATIONS IN SWEDEN.
- Authors
Elvander, Nils
- Abstract
In Sweden, the term labor movement still designates the political collective that was formed many years ago out of the cooperative relationship between the Social Democratic party (Socialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiet, SAP) and the manual workers' trade union movement organized in the Swedish Trade Union federation (Landsorganisationen, LO). The term embraces the institutional links between the SAP and LO, as well as the ideological unity that is supposed to exist between them. There is no correspondence to this linkage with a political party in other parts of the trade union community in Sweden, for the national unions and peak organizations (or federations) of salaried employees and professional workers take a "neutral" position vis-à-vis political parties. In fact, these organizations are not regarded as parts of the labor movement, and they are usually not called trade unions but simply associations or federations. The connection between trade unions and the Social Democratic party in Sweden has a long tradition, going back to the foundation of the first modern unions in the 1880s.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; LABOR movement; SWEDISH politics &; government; POLITICAL parties; SWEDISH politics &; government, 1973-; LABOR unions; POLITICAL participation of labor unions; LABOR policy; INCOME tax policy; WAGES
- Publication
ILR Review, 1974, Vol 28, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979397402800104