Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star : : The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000 / / ed. by Mary Hilson, Iben Vyff, Silke Neunsinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Evans, Chris,; Hilson, Mary,; Kaldal, Ingar,; Knudsen, Knud,; Kristjánsdóttir, Ragnheiður,; Larsen, Chris Holmsted,; Neunsinger, Silke,; Nilsson, Malin,; Rydén, Göran,; Stenum, Helle,; Suodenjoki, Sami,; Svanberg, Johan,; Terjesen, Einar A.,; Tikka, Marko,; Vyff, Iben,; Weiss, Holger,; Österberg, Mirja,
• HerausgeberIn: Hilson, Mary,; Neunsinger, Silke,; Vyff, Iben,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c. 1700–2000 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context -- 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 -- Chapter 3 Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906–1912 -- Chapter 4 Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? -- Chapter 5 Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870–1940 – from the Perspective of Work -- Chapter 6 Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War -- Chapter 7 Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South- Western Finland, 1899–1907 -- Chapter 8 Strike in Finland, Revolution in Russia: The Role of Workers in the 1905 General Strike in the Grand Duchy of Finland -- Chapter 9 Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890–1914 -- Chapter 10 ‘Norden’ as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of ‘Nordicness’ in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour Movement -- Chapter 11 Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War -- Chapter 12 Tall inn – Stockholm – Hamburg – Copenhagen – Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern’s Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920–1940 -- Chapter 13 Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958–1960 -- Index