ABSTRACT
The Government is largely responsible for determining the overall governing framework for individual business enterprises through its general economic policy and its own activities as an entrepreneur and provider of various essential services for the citizens. The inheritance of business undertakings, and the system in large concerns of having a few individuals serving on many boards of directors, cannot be regarded as satisfactory. It prevents the best powers coming to the top and breeds a narrowness of outlook. In general, it can be said that trade union policy in Sweden has been moulded in a way which does not work counter to the continual adjustments of the economy to new technical factors and changed market conditions. The experience of recent years has indicated that the scope for a wage policy of solidarity which helps to change the structure of the economy has hitherto been rather limited.
