Labour, unions and politics under the North Star : the Nordic countries, 1600-2000 /: the Nordic countries, 1600-2000. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff.
• Editors: Hilson, Mary; Neunsinger, Silke; Vyff, Iben
• Contents: List of Illustrations; List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations <a href="/downloads/intros/HilsonLabour_intro.pdf" target="_blank">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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.0948; Labor -- Scandinavia -- History; Labor unions -- Scandinavia -- History; Labor movement -- Scandinavia -- History; Labor policy -- Scandinavia -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785334979
• Related ISBNs: 9781785334962
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