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Labour, unions and politics under the North Star : the Nordic countries, 1700-2000 /

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called "Nordic m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hilson, Mary (Editor ), Neunsinger, Silke (Editor ), Vyff, Iben (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Connecting labour: organizing Swedish ironmaking in an Atlantic context / Göran Rydén and Chris Evans
  • '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
  • Diverse, rather than desperate: housewifization and industrial home work in Sweden, 1906-1912 / Malin Nilsson
  • Housemaids of the past and au pairs of today in Denmark: do they have anything in common? / Helle Stenum
  • Trade unionism in Denmark, 1870-1940: from the perspective of work / Knud Knudsen
  • Labour migration and industrial relations: recruitment of foreign-born workers to the Swedish engineering industry after the Second World War / Johan Svanberg
  • Land agitation and the rise of agrarian socialism in south-western Finland, 1899-1907 / Sami Suodenjoki
  • Strike in Finland, revolution in Russia: the role of workers in the 1905 general strike in the Grand Duchy of Finland / Marko Tikka
  • Radicalism or integration: socialist and liberal parties in Norway, 1890-1914 / Einar A. Terjesen
  • 'Norden' as a transnational space in the 1930s: negotiated consensus of 'Nordicness' in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the labour movement / Mirja Österberg
  • Facing the nation: Nordic communists and their national contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War / Ragneiður Kristjánsdóttir
  • Tallinn-Stockholm-Hamburg-Copenhagen-Oslo: the northern dimension of the Comintern's global network and underground activities, 1920-1940 / Holger Weiss
  • Danish cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958-1960 / Chris Holmsted Larsen.