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Conflict regulation in the Nordic countries

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  • Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke

    (Senior Researcher, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo. Thanks to the coordinators and Christer Thörnqvist for comments on an earlier version of the article)

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The four Nordic countries share several basic features concerning industrial relations, enabling a discussion of conflict regulation to be restricted to five aspects: by-laws and bargaining traditions, bargaining structure, mediation, state intervention in the bargaining process, and legal regulations concerning industrial action. Regulations in the four countries reflect to some extent the varying historical capacity of the main union confederations to centralise collective bargaining. Variations also relate to the sources of the regulations, i.e. whether they are unilateral, bilateral (collective agreements) or state imposed. These differences and their strengths and weaknesses are discussed, as are trends in industrial action, pointing out the rise of public-sector strikes and newer features of industrial conflict in the private-service sector.

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  • Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke, 2002. "Conflict regulation in the Nordic countries," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 8(4), pages 670-687, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:8:y:2002:i:4:p:670-687
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890200800406
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    1. Jørgen Svalund & Heidi Kervinen, 2013. "Trade union power during labour adjustments – comparison of company-level cases," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 19(4), pages 489-505, November.
    2. Christian Lyhne Ibsen & Søren Kaj Andersen & Jesper Due & Jørgen Steen Madsen, 2011. "Bargaining in the crisis - a comparison of the 2010 collective bargaining round in the Danish and Swedish manufacturing sectors," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 17(3), pages 323-339, August.

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