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The first question that must be confronted in a comparative study is: what is the purpose of making a comparison? Quite different purposes may be served, some more useful or more ambitious than others, but the purposes sought to be achieved inevitably shape the manner in which the comparison is made. In labor law and labor relations one of the most helpful uses of comparison is to provide a broader perspective from which we can critically examine our own legal rules and institutional practices. By studying the Swedish system, a working and reasonably successful system, we may recognize that legal rules and principles we in the United States have unquestionably accepted as fundamental are not essential, for Sweden functions and prospers with quite different rules. We may recognize that certain of our practices and institutions in union-management relations are more products of historical events and perpetuated by habit than compelled by economic forces or adopted as social choices. At the same time we may realize that legal rules and institutional structures are interrelated in ways we had not suspected and that particular rules have social consequences we have not considered. The comparative perspective helps us to see through the myths of our own system, to uncover the hidden premises on which we build, and to see more clearly the realities of our system and its special characteristics. Comparison that leads to greater self-understanding can suggest constructive changes, changes otherwise unthought or even unthinkable. When hidden premises are examined critically and accepted principles are questioned skeptically, we can see the need and potential for change. Examining another system opens our minds to other premises and forces our imagination to find new forms and devices to meet newly felt needs. We cannot, of course, blindly borrow from another system; that which works well in Sweden -will not necessarily work well in the United States. Awareness of the differences between the two sys-

Worker Participation in Sweden and the United States: Some Comparisons from an American Perspective