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Defending the Swedish Model - Social Democrats, Trade Unions, and Labor Migration Policy Reform (Hardcover)
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Across Europe, the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has
put increased labor migration back on the political agenda.
However, for many on the 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 towards calls from employers and bourgeois parties
for liberalization. Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop
their labor migration policy preferences 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
state 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.
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