The End Of the Relationship Between Social Democratic Parties and Trade Unions?

Abstract

This article will lay out a framework for understanding the relationship between social democratic parties and labour movements, and then briefly examine three cases-Britain, Germany and Sweden-in the period from roughly the end of the Second World War to the present. It seeks to explain the stark fact that the collapse of forms of political exchange between parties and trade unions since the end of the 1970s, and the mutual distancing of party and union movement, have occurred everywhere, implying common pressures.

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