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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1700-2000 Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context Göran Rydén and Chris Evans 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 Chapter 3. Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906-1912 Malin Nilsson Chapter 4. Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? Helle Stenum Chapter 5. Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870-1940 - from the Perspective of Work Knud Knudsen Chapter 6. Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War Johan Svanberg Chapter 7. Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South-Western Finland, 1899-1907 Sami Suodenjoki 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 Chapter 9. Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890-1914 Einar A. Terjesen 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 Chapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 12. Tallinn - Stockholm - Hamburg - Copenhagen - Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern's Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920-1940 Holger Weiss Chapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958-1960 Chris Holmsted Larsen Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1700-2000 Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context Göran Rydén and Chris Evans 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 Chapter 3. Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906-1912 Malin Nilsson Chapter 4. Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? Helle Stenum Chapter 5. Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870-1940 - from the Perspective of Work Knud Knudsen Chapter 6. Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War Johan Svanberg Chapter 7. Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South-Western Finland, 1899-1907 Sami Suodenjoki 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 Chapter 9. Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890-1914 Einar A. Terjesen 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 Chapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 12. Tallinn - Stockholm - Hamburg - Copenhagen - Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern's Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920-1940 Holger Weiss Chapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958-1960 Chris Holmsted Larsen Index
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