How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets
Platform companies haven’t overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic model’s uneven and conditional protections.
2 Article(s) by: Johan Alfonsson
Johan Alfonsson is an associate senior lecturer at Halmstad University, Sweden. He writes on the working class and precarious work, and is the author of the book (in Swedish) What Happened to the Working Class?
How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.