INSECURITY, LABOR-RELATIONS, AND FLEXIBILITY IN 2 PROCESS INDUSTRIES - A CANADA SWEDEN COMPARISON/

Sustained growth requires labour flexibility - wage changes, mobility between employers, or acceptance of changing technology within the wor kplace. But it is claimed that some limits on flexibility increase pro ductivity. Limits to wage cuts and increases in the employment securit y of workers may encourage mobility and induce workers to more readily accept technological change in the workplace. Canada and Sweden have differed in the amount of security provided by their institutions. In this paper we use survey and plant case study data from two industries in these countries to examine the extent to which attitudes to job se curity, labour relations and flexibility differ between the two countr ies.