The jury is still out on whether the Swedes got it right...but time will certainly tell
I do wonder though if the approach that Sweden took would have actually worked in the States...the two cultures are very different
this takes the post a little off course, but it is about the Swedes, so I'll share:
Back in the 1900's a manufacturing company in central Massachusetts, where I was raised, sent recruiters to Sweden and brought hundreds of Swedes over to America to work in their factory. Their research had indicated that Swedes were much more inclined to adapt and follow direction and far less likely to organize into a union than other nationalities or the local US workers at that time were. This one company wanted to avoid having to deal with a union. That company ended up with a predominant Swedish workforce and to this day never did unionize. All of the other large manufacturing firms in that same city did unionize.
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