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Restructuring the labour process in Sweden: the offensive of the SAF and the LO response
Author(s) -
Whyman Philip,
Burkitt Brian
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1995.tb00730.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , offensive , compromise , capital (architecture) , economics , democracy , monopoly , market economy , political economy , economic system , labour economics , political science , management , politics , law , archaeology , finance , history
Compromise between organised labour and capital facilitated decades of economic growth and industrial cooperation in Sweden. However, management's monopoly over the ‘right to manage’ increasingly conflicted with the labour movement's desire for industrial and economic democracy. This article analyses organised capital's ability to resist labour's reform initiative and pursue a neo‐liberal agenda which has greatly shifted Sweden in this direction.