Max Koch
FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor
The Role of the State in Employment and Welfare Regulation: Sweden in the European Context
Författare
Summary, in English
This article examines the changing role of the Swedish state in employment
and welfare regulation in an environment that has become more market driven,
commodified, and Europeanized. It begins with a theoretical reflection on the role of the state in capitalist development and a review of the recent debate on the spatiality of state regulation: the state as employer, redistributor, and arbiter, and as a shaper of mployment relations and welfare. In the latter role, the state is conceptualized as employer, guarantor of employment rights, and procedural regulator, as intermediating neo-corporatist processes, as macroeconomic manager, and as welfare state. From this theoretical basis, the paper identifies changes in state employment and welfare regulation by comparing two periods: the original and mainly nationstate-based founding stage of the Swedish welfare and employment model as it developed after the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement, and the period after Sweden’s accession to the European Union in 1995.
and welfare regulation in an environment that has become more market driven,
commodified, and Europeanized. It begins with a theoretical reflection on the role of the state in capitalist development and a review of the recent debate on the spatiality of state regulation: the state as employer, redistributor, and arbiter, and as a shaper of mployment relations and welfare. In the latter role, the state is conceptualized as employer, guarantor of employment rights, and procedural regulator, as intermediating neo-corporatist processes, as macroeconomic manager, and as welfare state. From this theoretical basis, the paper identifies changes in state employment and welfare regulation by comparing two periods: the original and mainly nationstate-based founding stage of the Swedish welfare and employment model as it developed after the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement, and the period after Sweden’s accession to the European Union in 1995.
Avdelning/ar
- Socialhögskolan
Publiceringsår
2016-12-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
243-262
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Review of Social History
Volym
61
Issue
special issue 24
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Social Work
Nyckelord
- state theory
- employment
- welfare
- Sweden
- EU
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1469-512X