Globalization, Swedish Trade Unions and European Integration
From Europhobia to Conditional Support
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8912274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Bieler (0000-0002-4475-4213, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-46 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00108369921961762 |
| OpenAlex | W2089347638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
The article argues that the Swedish trade unions were not instrumental in bringing about the Swedish Social Democratic Party's (SAP) decision to apply to the EC for membership on 26 October 1990, despite frequently made claims to the contrary. The trade unions were in fact rather surprised about the SAP turn-around. There had been a change in the position on EC membership within the labour movement after the SAP announcement, but it was anything but unanimous. On the one hand the trade unions of the industrial sector with transnational production structures were in favour, arguing that this was the only way to regain control over transnational capital and international financial markets lost at the national level. On the other hand the unions of the public sector opposed membership, maintaining that accession to the EC undermined the Swedish model with its policies of full employment and generous welfare provisions. The retaining of as many national policy tools as possible would offer a better chance of preserving the Swedish model in times of globalization. Neo-Gramscianism is adopted as the theoretical lens for this analysis, since this allows for account to be taken of the structural changes of globalization within which the debate was placed
Accession · Capital (architecture · Democracy · Economic integration · Economics · European union · Free trade · Globalization · International trade · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Welfare · European Union Policy and Governance · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Patterns of corporatist policy-making
The uniting of Europe
Policy Networks in British Government
Production, power and world order
Uniting Of Europe
Assessing SAP's Economic Policy in the 1980s
Politics in hard times
Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations
Austria's application to the European community
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations
Neutral states and the European Community
The global political economy
The Nordic countries and the EC
Neorealism and its critics
European Union and the Efta countries
Sweden and the European Economic Community
Preferences and Power in the European Community
Swedish social democracy in transition
The Swedish gender model
The rise and decline of corporatism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2012 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |