Essays about: "trade unions in sweden"

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1. 1. Destruction or Protection? A discursive institutionalist study of the ideas behind the different responses to the Minimum wage directive in Sweden and Finland

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Niklas Hjelm; [2023]
   Keywords : Sweden; Finland; Minimum wage directive; Discursive institutionalism; ideas; discourse; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study seeks to understand and explain why Sweden and Finland voted differently in the Council of the European Union on the proposal of a minimum wage directive. The two countries share a labor market system, based in collective bargaining and important roles for trade unions and employer organizations, without a legally set minimum wage. READ MORE

3. 2. The New Trade Union Model: A Strategic Action Field Approach to the Trade Union Organization of Umbrella Company Workers in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Moser Uppström; [2023]
   Keywords : Trade unions; Solo self-employment; Umbrella companies; Strategic action fields; Collective actors; Industrial relations; Umbrella company workers; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses a new trade union model for umbrella company workers and the changes in the field of trade unions in Sweden. By conceptualizing trade unions as collective actors within strategic action fields I describe and explain how a small independent trade union and challenger in the field, Säljarnas Riksförbund, has managed to construct a new trade union model for umbrella company workers that differs from the traditional model used by the incumbent Unionen, the largest trade union in Sweden. READ MORE

4. 3. Welfare Provision in Two EU Countries : A Comparative Study of Integration-Oriented Welfare Provision in Germany and Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Sanja Pfister; [2021]
   Keywords : European Union; Provision of welfare; Immigration; Welfare model; Conservative; Liberal; Social democratic; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Through different events and developments in the recent 30 years, the generally comprehensive understanding of welfare within the European Union has shifted and one of the aims of this thesis is to investigate if EU welfare states have converged or diverged regarding the provision of welfare. The theory on which the research was based is a typology of welfare states from 1990 by the Danish sociologist Gøsta Esping-Andersen. READ MORE

5. 4. Trade Unions at a Crossroads : A Qualitative Case Study of Blue-Collar Trade Unions and Challenges from Labor Migration

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Charlotte Renström; [2021]
   Keywords : Trade unions; labor migration; migrant workers; collective organization; Sweden; Landsorganisationen LO ;

   Abstract : As a result of the increasing mobility of labor globally, trade unions find themselves at a crossroads. Although labor migration has become a common feature of labor markets, it poses a threat to trade unions’ collective agreements by speeding up the downward pressure on wages and employment conditions. READ MORE

6. 5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction in the Heavy-Duty Transport Sector - A Case Study of Renewable Energy Carriers in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för energivetenskaper

   Author : Karolina André; William Degerstedt; [2021]
   Keywords : Battery electric vehicle; Biofuels; Greenhouse gas; Heavy-duty vehicles; LCA; Renewable energy carriers; Renewable fuels; TCO; Transport sector; Well-to-wheel; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Den svenska transportsektorn står för ungefär en tredjedel av landets totala utsläpp av växthusgaser och släppte 2019 ut 16,4 Mt CO2-ekvivalenter. Av dessa står den tunga vägtrafiken för cirka 20 % och är efter passagerarfordonen den största källan till utsläpp av växthusgaser inom sektorn. READ MORE