Defending the Swedish model : Social Democrats, trade unions, and labor migration policy reform / Gregg Bucken-Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bucken-Knapp, Gregg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Sweden.

Foreign workers.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Foreign workers--Government policy.

Sweden.

Foreign workers--Government policy--Sweden.

Sweden--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Landsorganisationen i Sverige.

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

Across Europe the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda However for many on the political left concerns exist that less restrictive labor migration policies threaten core features of the social democratic project. This is perhaps clearest in Sweden which in late 2008 adopted a liberal approach to third-country national labor migration allowing employers to hire freely from outside the European Union. Defending the Swedish Model explores the debate leading up to this reform focusing on the preferences of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish trade union confederation (LO). While generally positive to the economic potential of increased labor migration these allies remained highly skeptical toward calls from employers and bourgeois parties for liberalization

Gregg Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop their labor migration policy preference on the basis of whether specific reform alternatives are perceived as being consistent with or as undermining the Swedish model in the case of third-country nationals both allies considered liberalization a threat to full employment aims instead seeking to preserve an influential role for the state labor market board and organized labor. Bucken-knapp also focuses on the Swedish labor migration debate prior to the 2004 enlargement of the European union showing how SAP concerns over potential abuse of the universal welfare sate led to its support for transitional arrangements defending the Swedish model illuminates the challenges faced by social democrats and trade unions when considering the need for increased labor migration

Contents:

Labor migration and migration policy

Labor migration and the preservation of the Swedish model

Rejecting calls for deregulation of labor migration policy : LO and the SAP in the 2002 Swedish parliamentary election campaign

The battle to preserve an incentive-compatible labor migration policy

Labor migration and the eastward enlargement of the European Union : understanding the divergent preferences of the SAP and LO

Labor migration and the Swedish model, at home and abroad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739138168

0739138162

9780739138182

0739138189

OCLC:

373060317