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 model" can obscure the fact that experiences of work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here represent an ambitious intervention in labour historiography and European history, exploring themes such as work, unions, politics and migration from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

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Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star - The Nordic Countries, 1700–2000 - Edited by Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Iben Vyff
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Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c. 1700–2000 - Introduction - Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff and 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 - Tall inn – 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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