Strikes and local politics
Molinder, Jakob LU ; Enflo, Kerstin LU
and Karlsson, Tobias
LU
(2018)
- Abstract
- Conflicts in the labour market are detrimental to economic growth and welfare. Sweden was among the countries with the highest incidents of industrial disputes in the 1920s, but experienced declining levels from the 1930s onward. Using Swedish data from 1919 to 1938, this column shows that towns with both powerful unions and strong Social Democratic presence experienced labour market peace. The results point toward the importance of labour market peace for strategic political reasons, rather than to politicians offering tangible concessions via municipal governmental power.
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- author
- Molinder, Jakob
LU
; Enflo, Kerstin
LU
and Karlsson, Tobias
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-09-20
- type
- Other contribution
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- strikes, power resource theory, Sweden, labor unions, industrial conflicts
- categories
- Popular Science
- publisher
- voxeu.org
- project
- From Sundsvall to Saltsjöbaden: A regional perspective on strikes at the Swedish labor market
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9070ef65-5453-4517-b06f-9090054d00d4
- alternative location
- https://voxeu.org/article/strikes-and-local-politics
- date added to LUP
- 2018-12-14 09:28:30
- date last changed
- 2022-02-08 02:20:09
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