How labor unions change their message from wage to gender equality

What is it about?

Drawing on frame theory, this paper examines how policy entrepreneurs within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Landsorganisationen i Sverige (LO) embarked on a campaign to extend an exclusively class-based solidarity frame along gender lines.

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Why is it important?

The world of labor is being transformed in multiple ways. The findings of this paper help us come closer to understanding the ways in which even powerful labor unions need to engage with identity politics instead of merely focusing on bread and butter issue,.