Swedish labour movement

Swedish Labour Movement Think Tank elected new Board

31/08/2011 by Fredrik Jansson

At the AGM on Monday the Swedish Labour Movement Think Tank (Arbetarrörelsens tankesmedja) elected a completely new board. The board is now composed solely of women. Kerstin Alnebratt who has a PhD in Gender Studies and is director of the Swedish National Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg was elected president. Between 1994-2002 she [...]

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His Master’s Voice?

20/12/2010 by Fredrik Jansson

The newspaper Aftonbladet’s revelation that the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv, SN) has paid the PR firm Prime to push the internal Social Democratic post-election debate in more “growth friendly” direction has dropped like a bomb in the Swedish labour movement over the weekend. It is of course no surprise that a special interest [...]

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Welfare Capitalism or Capitalist Welfare?

22/10/2010 by Fredrik Jansson

In recent decades, the capitalist offensive in Sweden has had the ideological fire support of a neoliberal paradigm shaped by the dichotomy ‘nutritive and consumptive’ (‘närande och tärande’). By splitting the economy into a capitalist element putting money into the coffers and a governmental element that empties them, it became possible for the private sector to [...]

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