Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

List of IllustrationsList of Tables and MapsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1600-2000Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheidur KristjansdottirChapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Iron Making in an Atlantic ContextGoran Ryden 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 Co-operation Committee of the Labour MovementMirja OsterbergChapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and Their National Contexts from the 1920s and into the Cold WarRagnheidur KristjansdottirChapter 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 1958-60Chris Holmsted LarsenNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex