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Author Hilson, Mary

Title Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star : the Nordic Countries, 1600-2000
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (346 pages)
Series International Studies in Social History Ser. ; v. 28
International Studies in Social History Ser
Contents Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star; Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star -- The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000 -- Edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff; Contents; Illustrations; Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c. 1700-2000 -- Introduction -- Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff and 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 KaldalChapter 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 SvanbergChapter 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 ÖsterbergChapter 11 -- Facing the Nation -- Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War -- Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir; Chapter 12 -- Tall inn -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor -- Scandinavia -- History
Labor
Scandinavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Neunsinger, Silke
Vyff, Iben
ISBN 9781785334979
1785334972