Cuprins
List of Illustrations
List of Tables and Maps
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1700–2000
Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir
Chapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context
Göran Rydén 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, 1906–1912
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, 1870–1940 – 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, 1899–1907
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, 1890–1914
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 Österberg
Chapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War
Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir
Chapter 12. Tallinn – Stockholm – Hamburg – Copenhagen – Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern’s Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920–1940
Holger Weiss
Chapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958–1960
Chris Holmsted Larsen
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