Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
Subtitle: The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781785334962
Subjects: Europe, history
Description: 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. --