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The Swedish Route of the Reconciliation between Work and Family

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2016, (17), pp.139-190
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)

Seong Eun choi 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study is focused on the historical formation path of the reconciliation between work and family in Sweden, especially by looking at the historical cause-and-effect relationship diachronically through the historical institutionalism approach. The main findings are as follows. In the first stage, female power resources is formed in the development of the middle class and labor unions, to improve the economic and legal status of women. And with the Social Democratic Party’s slogan "People’s Home (Folkhemmet)", national care expansion and women possibility of empowerment could be foretold. The second step was that the long-term Social Democratic Party government began and the growth of women’s organizations affects the formation of the model of the universal family policy principle throughout the corporatist policy mechanism. In the third stage, the repulsion of the women of the double burden and the organized power of women is further strongly intensified. According to these, the growth of the women-friendly welfare state had been made. In the fourth stage, in spite of the economic crisis, growing more and more priority for population issues and women's employment, the support for labor market institutions improvement and family care was expanding, to complete the Swedish path model. Important discovery in Swedish path model is that the various governmental support to reconcile the work and family was expanded with Swedish neo-corporatist system among the government, the labor union (users, workers), and the organized power of women. In addition, rather than simply meeting the demand of welfare services instantly, national policy design was continually devised to develop the production and the welfare by women’s organized forces so as to achieve a virtuous cycle.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.