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Labour market conflicts in Scandinavia, c. 1900–1938: The scientific need to separate strikes and lockouts

Abstract
Research on labour markets conflicts has come a long way. Today we know that conflicts vary over business cycles and with the design of labour market institutions; they tend to cluster around wars and return in longer waves; certain branches are affected by conflicts more than others, and conflicts in the last couple of decades have been feminised and tertiarised. Yet we could do better. With few exceptions quantitative studies are about conflicts, that is, strikes and lockouts in amalgamation. Analytically separating strikes and lockouts has the potential of shedding new light on several debates of historical and theoretical importance. While the distinction between the two types of conflicts has general implications, in this paper I make specific references to the three Scandinavian countries, namely Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Employers and employees struggle over influence and division of income. Occasionally the two parties use, or threaten to use, their respective tools: the lockout and the strike. The day the scientific community decides to treat employers and employees as a single entity, we should also do the same with lockouts and strikes. But not before.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2077/63624
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Date
2020-02
Author
Hamark, Jesper
Keywords
Lockouts
strikes
labour market conflicts
cross-country comparisons
strike methodology
Scandinavia
Publication type
report
ISSN
1653-1000
Series/Report no.
Göteborg Papers in Economic History
26
Language
eng
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