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‘What is it actually about?’ Asymmetric mobilisation and the defeat of wage-earner fund policies in Sweden
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The open-access Economic and Industrial Democracy article consulted for the individual-benefit and political-mobilization objection.
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The 1981 Swedish wage-earner-fund proposal financed the funds through a levy on excess profits.
- supports · section ‘1978–1981: Muted support, vigorous opposition and the watering down of wage-earner funds’, pp. 514–515
Warner reports that objections to capital formation displacing worker power and influence recurred at the 1981 LO and Social Democratic congresses.
- supports · section ‘1978–1981: Muted support, vigorous opposition and the watering down of wage-earner funds’, pp. 513–514
Warner argues that most Social Democratic voters and union members treated wage-earner funds as distant from their everyday concerns.
- supports · section ‘Theoretical implications: Asymmetries in everyday experience and mobilisation’, pp. 518–519
Warner reports recurring complaints that the tangible benefits of wage-earner funds were unclear to intended supporters.
- supports · section ‘1978–1981: Muted support, vigorous opposition and the watering down of wage-earner funds’, pp. 513–514