Nordic Welfare Cities

Magnus Linnarsson is an associate professor of history at Stockholm University. His main research interest includes political history, focusing on institutional change, state formation and political conflicts. His latest book Problemet med vinster (2017) analyzes political conflicts about the organization of public services from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the 1990s. He currently leads a research project about welfare cities in the Nordic countries, c. 1870–1920.Mats Hallenberg is a professor of history at Stockholm University. His main research interest includes the political history of Sweden and Scandinavia from the early modern period up until the twentieth century. Published works address local administration in Sweden and Finland, the impact of tax farming, royal propaganda and military organization, as well as municipal conflicts over the organization of welfare services.

• 1. The Nordic Welfare City: Urban Community and Public Services since 1850Magnus Linnarsson2. Negotiating Water and Citizenship in Copenhagen 1850–1950Mikkel Thelle3. Municipalization in Norwegian Cities c. 1850–1920Knut Dørum4. Theatre and the Making of the Welfare City: Gothenburg’s Performance stages, 1880s–1934Christina Reimann5. Municipal Services and Modern Citizenship in Helsinki in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesMarjaana Niemi6. A Tale of Two Tramways: Municipal Organization and Private Enterprise in Stockholm and Kristiania, c. 1900Mats Hallenberg7. The Rise of the Negotiated Welfare City After the Civil War: Inclusion, Welfare and ReconciliationKati Katajisto8. Infrastructural Citizenship: The Everyday Politics of Slum Clearance in Mid-twentieth Century CopenhagenMikkel Høghøj9. The Conflict-Filled Holiday Village: The Expansion of Summer Houses in the Copenhagen Metropolis’ Open Land 1918–1990Henning Bro10. Three Types of Welfare Cities: The Case of SwedenHeiko Droste11. The Nordic Welfare City – Types and DimensionsMagnus Linnarsson and Mats Hallenberg