The Erosion of the Rehn-Meidner Model


Labor militancy: wage earner funds, codetermination, strikes.

Swedish Employers Federation (SAF) had the resources to face off with LO and win: lockouts.

SAF-bourgeois party alliances put both in power during 1976-82 interregnum.

Institutional withdrawal: defections from SAF-LO central bargaining and SAF withdrawal from corporatist apparatus of industrial relations.

Suedo-sclerosis