Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star: The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Edited by: Mary Hilson , Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff

Volume 28 in the series International Studies in Social History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334979

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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic model” can obscure the fact that experiences of work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here represent an ambitious intervention in labour historiography and European history, exploring themes such as work, unions, politics and migration from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Author / Editor information

Mary Hilson is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective: Britain and Sweden 1880-1920 (2006) and The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945 (2008).

Silke Neunsinger is Associate Professor in Economic History and Director of Research at the Swedish Labor Movement Archives and Library. Her research has been concerned with feminist labour history, the history of social movements and methodology. She is currently working on a global history of equal remuneration.

Iben Vyff is Head of Communication at Elsinore Museums, Denmark. Her research has been concerned with the cultural turn in Cold War studies, Americanization and gender. She is co-author of Dansk Skolehistorie: Hverdag, vilkår og visioner gennem 500 år, which received the History Book of the Year Award from the Danish History Council in 2015.

Mary Hilson is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective: Britain and Sweden 1880-1920 (2006) and The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945 (2008).

Reviews

“Enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, tables, maps, and a seven-page index, [this volume consisting of] thirteen erudite and informative articles by experts in the field of labor and trade unionism is very highly recommended for college and university library International Studies in Social History collections in general, and European Labor and Trade Unionism History supplemental studies reading lists in particular.” · Midwest Book Review

“Though these essays range widely, they are held together by an excellent common effort to set each chapter within the broader Nordic context. This is a top-rate contribution to the historiography on European labour movements.” · David Kirby, University College London

“This welcome book provides very interesting and well-argued views on a rich variety of topics in recent and current Nordic labour history research, and on the current state of art in Nordic labour relations and movements.” · Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Tables and Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c. 1700–2000 Introduction Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context Göran Rydén and Chris Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 2 ‘Forest Men’ How Scandinavian Loggers’ Understandings of ‘Real Men’ and ‘Real Work’ are Rooted in Personal Narratives and Popular Culture about Forest Life Ingar Kaldal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 3 Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906–1912 Malin Nilsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 4 Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? Helle Stenum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 5 Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870–1940 – from the Perspective of Work Knud Knudsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 6 Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War Johan Svanberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 7 Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South- Western Finland, 1899–1907 Sami Suodenjoki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 8 Strike in Finland, Revolution in Russia: The Role of Workers in the 1905 General Strike in the Grand Duchy of Finland Marko Tikka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter 9 Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890–1914 Einar A. Terjesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Chapter 10 ‘Norden’ as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of ‘Nordicness’ in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour Movement Mirja Österberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 11 Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Chapter 12 Tall inn – Stockholm – Hamburg – Copenhagen – Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern’s Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920–1940 Holger Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Chapter 13 Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958–1960 Chris Holmsted Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Keywords: Nordic Model; Labor Movements; Labor History; Scandinavia; Welfare State

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Published: May 1, 2017
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