Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

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

• List of IllustrationsList of Tables and MapsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1700–2000Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiður KristjánsdóttirChapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic ContextGöran Rydén and Chris EvansChapter 2. ‘Forest Men’: How Scandinavian Loggers’ Understandings of ‘Real Men’ and ‘Real Work’ are Rooted in Personal Narratives and Popular Culture about Forest LifeIngar KaldalChapter 3. Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906–1912Malin NilssonChapter 4. Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common?Helle StenumChapter 5. Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870–1940 – from the Perspective of WorkKnud KnudsenChapter 6. Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World WarJohan SvanbergChapter 7. Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South-Western Finland, 1899–1907Sami SuodenjokiChapter 8. Strike in Finland, Revolution in Russia: The Role of Workers in the 1905 General Strike in the Grand Duchy of FinlandMarko TikkaChapter 9. Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890–1914Einar A. TerjesenChapter 10. ‘Norden’ as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of ‘Nordicness’ in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour MovementMirja ÖsterbergChapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold WarRagnheiður KristjánsdóttirChapter 12. Tallinn – Stockholm – Hamburg – Copenhagen – Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern’s Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920–1940Holger WeissChapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958–1960Chris Holmsted LarsenIndex