This paper tests if a strong labor movement leads to fewer industrial conflicts. The focus is on Sweden between the first general election in 1919 and the famous Saltsjöbaden Agreement in 1938, a formative period when the country transitioned from fierce labor conflicts to a state of industrial peace. We use panel data techniques to analyze more than 2000 strikes in 103 Swedish towns. We find that a shift of political majority towards the Social Democrats led to a significant decline in strikes, but only in towns where union presence was strong. The strike-reducing mechanism is related to corporatist explanations rather than increased social spending in municipal budgets.

本文测试了强烈的劳工运动是否会导致更少的劳资冲突。重点是瑞典从 1919 年的第一次大选到 1938 年著名的萨尔茨约巴登协议，这是该国从激烈的劳资冲突过渡到工业和平状态的形成时期。我们使用面板数据技术分析了 103 个瑞典城镇的 2000 多次罢工。我们发现，政治多数向社会民主党的转变导致罢工显着下降，但仅限于工会力量强大的城镇。减少罢工的机制与社团主义解释有关，而不是增加市政预算中的社会支出。