Bengt Furaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 267397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bengt Furaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bengt |
| FAMILY NAME | Furaker |
| SIGNATURE | FURAKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The issue of statutory minimum wages: Views among Nordic trade unions
Nordic trade unions are known to be sceptical of statutory minimum wages. The peak level organizations are generally against legislation, as they believe that their model of bargaining is preferable. In contrast, trade unions in many other parts of Europe find it necessary with statutory minimum wages to protect all workers and not just the unionized. Legislation can also be considered a way of preventing wage dumping and avoiding poverty. This a…
European trade union cooperation, union density and employee attitudes to unions
European trade unions have much to gain from cooperating with each other. Such cooperation does exist, but it is still fairly limited and many obstacles need to be overcome if cooperation is to be improved. According to our survey data, higher-level union officials regard differences concerning financial resources and national labour market regulations to be particularly substantial barriers to cooperation. The enormously varying union density ac…
Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
Female cabin attendants who have been in the occupation for 25 years or more have been interviewed. They were middle-aged, middle-class women, and they told about the decline of working conditions ...
The Swedish wage-earner funds and economic democracy: Is there anything to be learned from them?
In 1983, the Social Democratic government in Sweden proposed that wage-earner funds should be implemented in the country and this proposal was adopted by parliament. The reform was initiated by LO, the large blue-collar trade union, and had been debated for more than a decade. Its purpose was to develop economic democracy, counteract the concentration of capital ownership but also to increase collective savings and supply capital for investments.…
Landvinningar, vindkantringar och vägval i svensk sociologi
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Flexibility and Stability in Working Life
Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place
Sociological perspectives on labor markets
In contrast to those authors who claim that we now face the end of industrialism, wage-work, the nation-state, standard employment, unions, class and collective action, it is argued that in analyzing contemporary developments, we must not neglect the more lasting features of labor markets but assign them a proper role."--Jacket. "This book provides sociological perspectives for the analysis of labor markets in advanced capitalist societies. It ma…
Attitudes towards the unemployed. An analysis of Swedish survey data
To be unemployed is often associated with being stigmatised by others. People may blame the unemployed themselves, insist that they could find a job if they tried harder, maintain that too little is demanded from recipients of unemployment benefits and consider differences in standard of living between the unemployed and the employed too small. This article is aimed at studying the prevalence of such negative attitudes and to examine the determin…
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Scandinavia in a New Europe
Systemskifte med förhinder
A shift of system with obstacles?To begin with, the article discusses the concepts in the theme of the Swedish Sociological Association’s annual meeting 1994, ”State, market and civil society” . It is argued that the democratic character of the state and its positive role in providing social services should not be underestimated, that the market category tends to make the process of production invisible,and that the ideas about civil society are …
Welfare State Employment in Scandinavia
The welfare states are, among other things, important employers of labor power. This chapter analyses the relationship between the welfare state and the labor market from that angle. Public employment has increased considerably in many, if not most, modern Western nations after World War II, and it has become a significant aspect of their present-day social and economic structure. The most important issue concerning the definition of public emplo…
Public Employment and Class Formation
Historically oriented social science scholars point out that almost since the time of Marx there has been an ongoing controversy about the “middle classes,” that is, positions or occupations outside or in between the labor-capital polarity. In the sociological literature, it is easy to find several different ways of treating the class position of public employees, and people will start by saying a few words about the most prominent approaches in …
Unemployment and Labour Market Policies in the Scandinavian Countries
Looked upon from outside, the Scandinavian welfare states exhibit important similarities with regard to labour market policy. Their governments all do a great deal m response to unemployment and they use the same type of measures for this purpose. Compared with what is regarded as normal in other modern Western nations, large amounts of money and other resources are spent on reducing unemployment or at least the burdens of unem ployment. It may t…
Leave of Absence and Part-time Retirement: Ways of Providing More Job Opportunities
The municipal council in Pitei, northern Sweden, decided at the end of 1983 to make it easier for the municipally-employed to take leave of absence or part-time retirement. The new policy aimed to improve the opportunities for people without a job to obtain one. It was assumed that with more generous rules, both vacancies and replacements would increase. In this article some of the changes that have taken place in Pitei since the experiment start…
Towards Increasing Labour Market Flexibility
Since 1984 the local authority in Pitea in northern Sweden has facilitated leave of absence and part-time retirement among its employees. The purpose behind this new policy was to set more jobs free for others to be recruited to It was assumed that the number of replacements would increase through this kind of voluntary reduction of work In the present article some of the results of the Pitea experiment are described The number of cases of grante…
Attitudes towards the unemployed. An analysis of Swedish survey data
To be unemployed is often associated with being stigmatised by others. People may blame the unemployed themselves, insist that they could find a job if they tried harder, maintain that too little is demanded from recipients of unemployment benefits and consider differences in standard of living between the unemployed and the employed too small. This article is aimed at studying the prevalence of such negative attitudes and to examine the determin…
Unemployment and Labour Market Policies in the Scandinavian Countries
Looked upon from outside, the Scandinavian welfare states exhibit important similarities with regard to labour market policy. Their governments all do a great deal m response to unemployment and they use the same type of measures for this purpose. Compared with what is regarded as normal in other modern Western nations, large amounts of money and other resources are spent on reducing unemployment or at least the burdens of unem ployment. It may t…
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Welfare State Employment in Scandinavia
The welfare states are, among other things, important employers of labor power. This chapter analyses the relationship between the welfare state and the labor market from that angle. Public employment has increased considerably in many, if not most, modern Western nations after World War II, and it has become a significant aspect of their present-day social and economic structure. The most important issue concerning the definition of public emplo…
Public Employment and Class Formation
Historically oriented social science scholars point out that almost since the time of Marx there has been an ongoing controversy about the “middle classes,” that is, positions or occupations outside or in between the labor-capital polarity. In the sociological literature, it is easy to find several different ways of treating the class position of public employees, and people will start by saying a few words about the most prominent approaches in …
Towards Increasing Labour Market Flexibility
Since 1984 the local authority in Pitea in northern Sweden has facilitated leave of absence and part-time retirement among its employees. The purpose behind this new policy was to set more jobs free for others to be recruited to It was assumed that the number of replacements would increase through this kind of voluntary reduction of work In the present article some of the results of the Pitea experiment are described The number of cases of grante…
Leave of Absence and Part-time Retirement: Ways of Providing More Job Opportunities
The municipal council in Pitei, northern Sweden, decided at the end of 1983 to make it easier for the municipally-employed to take leave of absence or part-time retirement. The new policy aimed to improve the opportunities for people without a job to obtain one. It was assumed that with more generous rules, both vacancies and replacements would increase. In this article some of the changes that have taken place in Pitei since the experiment start…
Unemployment and Labour Market Policies in the Scandinavian Countries
Looked upon from outside, the Scandinavian welfare states exhibit important similarities with regard to labour market policy. Their governments all do a great deal m response to unemployment and they use the same type of measures for this purpose. Compared with what is regarded as normal in other modern Western nations, large amounts of money and other resources are spent on reducing unemployment or at least the burdens of unem ployment. It may t…
Welfare State Employment in Scandinavia
The welfare states are, among other things, important employers of labor power. This chapter analyses the relationship between the welfare state and the labor market from that angle. Public employment has increased considerably in many, if not most, modern Western nations after World War II, and it has become a significant aspect of their present-day social and economic structure. The most important issue concerning the definition of public emplo…
Public Employment and Class Formation
Historically oriented social science scholars point out that almost since the time of Marx there has been an ongoing controversy about the “middle classes,” that is, positions or occupations outside or in between the labor-capital polarity. In the sociological literature, it is easy to find several different ways of treating the class position of public employees, and people will start by saying a few words about the most prominent approaches in …
Systemskifte med förhinder
A shift of system with obstacles?To begin with, the article discusses the concepts in the theme of the Swedish Sociological Association’s annual meeting 1994, ”State, market and civil society” . It is argued that the democratic character of the state and its positive role in providing social services should not be underestimated, that the market category tends to make the process of production invisible,and that the ideas about civil society are …
Scandinavia in a New Europe
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Attitudes towards the unemployed. An analysis of Swedish survey data
To be unemployed is often associated with being stigmatised by others. People may blame the unemployed themselves, insist that they could find a job if they tried harder, maintain that too little is demanded from recipients of unemployment benefits and consider differences in standard of living between the unemployed and the employed too small. This article is aimed at studying the prevalence of such negative attitudes and to examine the determin…
Sociological perspectives on labor markets
In contrast to those authors who claim that we now face the end of industrialism, wage-work, the nation-state, standard employment, unions, class and collective action, it is argued that in analyzing contemporary developments, we must not neglect the more lasting features of labor markets but assign them a proper role."--Jacket. "This book provides sociological perspectives for the analysis of labor markets in advanced capitalist societies. It ma…
Flexibility and Stability in Working Life
Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place
Landvinningar, vindkantringar och vägval i svensk sociologi
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
The Swedish wage-earner funds and economic democracy: Is there anything to be learned from them?
In 1983, the Social Democratic government in Sweden proposed that wage-earner funds should be implemented in the country and this proposal was adopted by parliament. The reform was initiated by LO, the large blue-collar trade union, and had been debated for more than a decade. Its purpose was to develop economic democracy, counteract the concentration of capital ownership but also to increase collective savings and supply capital for investments.…
Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
Female cabin attendants who have been in the occupation for 25 years or more have been interviewed. They were middle-aged, middle-class women, and they told about the decline of working conditions ...
The issue of statutory minimum wages: Views among Nordic trade unions
Nordic trade unions are known to be sceptical of statutory minimum wages. The peak level organizations are generally against legislation, as they believe that their model of bargaining is preferable. In contrast, trade unions in many other parts of Europe find it necessary with statutory minimum wages to protect all workers and not just the unionized. Legislation can also be considered a way of preventing wage dumping and avoiding poverty. This a…
European trade union cooperation, union density and employee attitudes to unions
European trade unions have much to gain from cooperating with each other. Such cooperation does exist, but it is still fairly limited and many obstacles need to be overcome if cooperation is to be improved. According to our survey data, higher-level union officials regard differences concerning financial resources and national labour market regulations to be particularly substantial barriers to cooperation. The enormously varying union density ac…
Economics (14 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Law (4 works)