Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

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

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).

List of Illustrations List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.17002000 Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiur Kristjnsdttir Chapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context Gran Rydn 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, 19061912 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, 18701940 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, 18991907 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, 18901914 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 sterberg Chapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War Ragnheiur Kristjnsdttir Chapter 12. Tallinn Stockholm Hamburg Copenhagen Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Cominterns Global Network and Underground Activities, 19201940 Holger Weiss Chapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 19581960 Chris Holmsted Larsen Index