Labour, unions and politics under the North Star : labour, unions and politics in the Nordic countries, 1600-2000 / edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilson, Mary, editor.

Neunsinger, Silke, editor.

Vyff, Iben, editor.

Series:

International studies in social history.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-732-0

1-78533-497-2