Labour, unions and politics under the North Star : the Nordic countries, 1700-2000 / edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilson, Mary, editor, contributor.

Neunsinger, Silke, editor, contributor.

Vyff, Iben, editor, contributor.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 28.

International studies in social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Scandinavia--History.

Labor.

Labor unions--Scandinavia--History.

Labor unions.

Labor movement--Scandinavia--History.

Labor movement.

Labor policy--Scandinavia--History.

Labor policy.

History.

Scandinavia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 328 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Labor, unions and politics under the North Star

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Contents:

1 Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context / Göran Rydén Rydén, Göran, Chris Evans Evans, Chris 71

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 Kaldal, Ingar 88

3 Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906-1912 / Malin Nilsson Nilsson, Malin 107

4 Housemaids of the Fast and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? / Helle Stenum Stenum, Helle 122

5 Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870-1940 - from the Perspective of Work / Knud Knudsen Knudsen, Knud 140

6 Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War / Johan Svanberg Svanberg, Johan 156

7 Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South-Western Finland, 1899-1907 / Sami Suodenjoki Suodenjoki, Sami 175

8 Strike in Finland, Revolution in Russia: The Role of Workers in the 1905 General Strike in tire Grand Duchy of Finland / Marko Tikka Tikka, Marko 197

9 Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890-1914 / Einar A. Terjesen Terjesen, Einar A. 218

10 'Norden' as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of 'Nordicness' in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour Movement / Mirja-Österberg 237

11 Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War / Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Kristjánsdóttir, Ragnheiður 258

12 Tallinn - Stockholm - Hamburg - Copenhagen - Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern's Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920-1940 / Holger Weiss Weiss, Holger 279

13 Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958-1960 / Chris Holmsted Larson Larson, Chris Holmsted 302.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Labour, unions and politics under the North Star.

ISBN:

9781785334962

1785334964

OCLC:

961158990