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Boris Simkovich (bosimkovich at vaxsar.vassar.edu)

Mon Jun 26 22:52:22 EDT 1995

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I want to thank everyone who responded to my request for 
references on the development of labor law and labor-management 
relations in Sweden before World War I.  I've compiled below a 
summary of the suggestions that were made to me either 
publically on the lists to which I posted my request or 
privately via personal e-mail. 
 
Adams, Roy, comparative chapter in Anderson, Gunderson, and 
   Ponak, *Union-management relations in Canada*, Don Mills, 
   Canada: Addison-Wesley, 1988. 
Andrae, Carl-Goran, "The Swedish labor movement and the 1917-1918 
   Revolution," in Steven Koblik (ed.), *Sweden's development 
   from poverty to affluence, 1750-1970*, Minneapolis: Univ. of 
   Minnesota Press, 1975. 
Adlercruetz, Axel, "The rise and development of the collective 
   agreement," *Scandinavian studies in law*, 1958, 9-53. 
Baldwin, Peter, *The politics of social solidarity*, Cambridge: 
   Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990. 
Bamber, Greg, and Russel Lansbury, *International and comparative 
   industrial relations*, London: Routledge, 1993. 
Blake, "Swedish trade unions and the Social Democratic Party*, 
   *Scandinavian economic history review*, 1960, 8(1), pp. 19-44. 
Blake, Donald, *Swedish trade unions and the Social Democratic 
   Party: the formative years*, Berkeley: Univ. of California 
   Press, 1961. 
Blanpain, R. and C. Engels (eds.), *Comparative labour law and 
   industrial relations in industrialized market economies*, 5th 
   rev. ed., Deventer, Netherlands: Kluwer Law and Taxation 
   Publishers, 1993. 
Esping-Andersen, Gosta, *Politics against markets: the social 
   democratic road to power*, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 
   1985. 
Fulcher, James, *Labour movements, employers, and the state: 
   conflict and cooperation in Britain and Sweden*, Oxford: 
   Clarendon, 1991. 
Heckscher, Eli, *An economic history of Sweden*, Cambridge, MA: 
   Harvard Univ. Press., 1954. 
Johnston, T.L., *Collective bargaining in Sweden*, London: Allen 
   & Unwin (and Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press), 1962. 
Lafferty, William, *Economic development and the response of 
   labor in Scandinavia: a multi-level analysis*, Oslo: 
   Universitetsforlaget, 1971. 
Misgeld, Klaus, Karl Molin, and Klas Amark, *Creating social 
   democracy: a century of the Social-Democratic Labor Party of 
   Sweden*, Penn State, 1992. 
Robbins, James J., *The government of labor relations in Sweden*, 
   Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1942. 
Swenson, Peter, *Fair shares: unions, pay, and politics in Sweden 
   and West Germany*, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1989. 
Tilton, *The political theory of the Swedish social democracy *, 
   Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. 
Tingsten, Herbert, *The Swedish Social Democrats: their 
   ideological development*, Totowa, NJ: Bedminster Press, 1973. 
 
Goran Salmonsson (Uppsala University) also informed me that a 
number of dissertations have been written in Sweden in the past 
twenty years on the subject of the early history of labor- 
management relations in that country.  Many of the dissertations 
include at least a summary in English.  Anyone seriously 
interested in investigating the evolution of Swedish labor- 
management relations will likely want to consult those works. 
 
 
I am grateful to the following individuals for their generous 
suggestions and helpful comments: Roy Adams, Steven Deutsch, 
Colleen Dunlavy, Steve Halebsky, Ian Hampson, Helen Liebel- 
Weckowicz, Doris Linder, David Mitch, Tony O'Brien, Timo 
Myllyntaus, Jon Peirce, Jonas Pontusson, Francis Regan, Hugh 
Rockoff, Barbara Rosen, Goran Salmonsson, Howard Schweber, Mark 
Spoerer, Eric Tucker, Jim Van Leemput, Don Watson, and Jeff 
Williamson. 
 
Thanks again to everyone, 
 
Boris Simkovich 
(bosimkovich at vaxsar.vassar.edu) 
Department of Economics 
Vassar College 
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 
 
 
 
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