Political attitude and trade union membership in the Nordic countries

TY - JOUR

T1 - Political attitude and trade union membership in the Nordic countries

AU - Jensen, Carsten Strøby

PY - 2017/12/1

Y1 - 2017/12/1

N2 - Do political attitudes influence the likelihood of employees being members of a trade union, and to what extent is this the case in the Nordic countries with their high aggregate levels of membership? In this article, I address these questions using European Social Survey data from 2012. The results show that left-wing political attitudes have the most impact on the likelihood of trade union membership in Sweden and to a lesser extent in Denmark. In Norway and Finland, there is no statistically significant impact. I argue that the impact of left-wing political attitudes on unionization in Sweden and Denmark reflects a conception among employees that trade unions are normative organizations.

AB - Do political attitudes influence the likelihood of employees being members of a trade union, and to what extent is this the case in the Nordic countries with their high aggregate levels of membership? In this article, I address these questions using European Social Survey data from 2012. The results show that left-wing political attitudes have the most impact on the likelihood of trade union membership in Sweden and to a lesser extent in Denmark. In Norway and Finland, there is no statistically significant impact. I argue that the impact of left-wing political attitudes on unionization in Sweden and Denmark reflects a conception among employees that trade unions are normative organizations.

UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959680117708372

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0959-6801

VL - 23

SP - 381

EP - 395

JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations

JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations

IS - 4

M1 - 0

ER -