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9780739138168

Defending the Swedish Model Social Democrats, Trade Unions, and Labor Migration Policy Reform

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739138168

  • ISBN10:

    0739138162

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-09-24
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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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

Author Biography

Gregg Bucken-Knapp is senior lecturer in politics at the university of Stirling UK

Table of Contents

Acknowwledgmentsp. ix
Labor migration and migration policyp. 1
Labor migration and the preservation of the Swedish modelp. 29
Rejeting calls for deregulation of labor migration policy: LO and the SAP in the 2002 Swedish parliamentary Election Campaignp. 49
The battle to preserve an incentive-compatible labor migration policyp. 85
Labor Migration and the eastward enlargement of the europen union: Understanding the Divergent Preferences of the SAP and LOp. 117
Labor Migration and the swedish model at home and abroadp. 145
Bibliographyp. 165
Indexp. 177
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