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Migrant precarity and future challenges to labour standards in Sweden

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  • Charles Woolfson

    (Linköping University, Sweden)

  • Judy Fudge

    (University of Kent, UK)

  • Christer Thörnqvist

    (Linköping University, Sweden)

Abstract

Fears of a ‘race to the bottom’ in labour standards may have been overstated. Nevertheless, using Sweden as a case study, it is argued that the diminished capacity of trade unions to defend labour standards following the Laval judgement of the European Court of Justice, together with a decline in trade union density, a limited remit of enforcement authorities and recent changes to the Swedish labour migration regime, may have detrimental impacts on labour standards, particularly in low-skill low-wage occupations. In combination, these developments are creating new spaces for migrant precariousness within the context of a formerly well-regulated Swedish labour market model.

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  • Charles Woolfson & Judy Fudge & Christer Thörnqvist, 2014. "Migrant precarity and future challenges to labour standards in Sweden," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 35(4), pages 695-715, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:35:y:2014:i:4:p:695-715
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13494249
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