Strikes by junior hospital doctors over the issue of on-call remuneration in Denmark and Sweden in 1981 are analyzed to clarify the impact of public-sector cost-control policies on intra- and interprofessional solidarity within the Scandinavian professional peak associations. The junior doctors' grievances could find expression either through increased “voice” within the medical negotiating machinery, or by pursuing the exit option in having the medical associations quit the peak associations. The article explains why the “exit” option was selected in Denmark, while in Sweden the granting of additional voice helped persuade the medical association to withdraw its exit threat and to remain within the peak association. The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
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April 01 1985
Organized Medicine and Scandinavian Professional Unionism: Hospital Policies and Exit Options in Denmark and Sweden
J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (2): 347–370.
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Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Lars Nørby Johansen; Organized Medicine and Scandinavian Professional Unionism: Hospital Policies and Exit Options in Denmark and Sweden. J Health Polit Policy Law 1 April 1985; 10 (2): 347–370. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-10-2-347
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