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”...

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