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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.
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.
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
Mary Hilson is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective: Britain and Sweden 1880-1920 (2006) and The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945 (2008).
“Enhanced with the inclusion of illustrations, tables, maps, and a seven-page index, [this volume consisting of] thirteen erudite and informative articles by experts in the field of labor and trade unionism is very highly recommended for college and university library International Studies in Social History collections in general, and European Labor and Trade Unionism History supplemental studies reading lists in particular.” · Midwest Book Review “Though these essays range widely, they are held together by an excellent common effort to set each chapter within the broader Nordic context. This is a top-rate contribution to the historiography on European labour movements.” · David Kirby, University College London “This welcome book provides very interesting and well-argued views on a rich variety of topics in recent and current Nordic labour history research, and on the current state of art in Nordic labour relations and movements.” · Pauli Kettunen, University of Helsinki
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