Auteur: Björn Horgby

Björn Horgby is Professor at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden. Professor Horgby recently published Rock och uppror. Amerikansk, brittisk och svensk rockkultur 1955–69 (Rock and Rebellion: American, British and Swedish Rock Culture 1955–69) (2007). He has also published extensively on the formation and transformation of the Swedish working class and labour movement. His main research interest lies in the conditions of democracy and modern social and cultural history.Fredrik Nilsson is Associate Professor of Ethnology at the Department of Historical Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. His main research interests concern identity formation in the intersections of global flows and local practices. In 2003, Professor Nilsson published Aktiesparandets förlovade land (In the Promised Land of Sharesaving) in which he analyzed how people”s daily lives were influenced by the stock market and how new competences and communities developed in the intersection of local practices and global flows of information and capital. Currently he is working on a project that focuses on how young women with a working class background negotiated identities as they enrolled in the Salvation Army in the late 19th century.