Film Screening and Directors´ Talk: ’We Carry It Within Us’ – fragments of a shared colonial past
Screening of the documentary feature 'We Carry It Within Us' Length: 65 min. Language; English ’The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it…… History is literally present in all that we do.’ James Baldwin The documentary feature ‘We Carry it Within Us’ investigates […]
NLHN seminar: Home-based work and home-based workers 1800 to the present
Landsorganisationen i Sverige Barnhusgatan 18, Stockholm, SverigeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. The edited volume Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. […]
NLHN: From reserved to super-ally: Social Democratic foreign policy in the 20th Century and beyond
An online seminar organized by the Nordic Labour History Network. On 10 February 2022, the Danish Social Democratic Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, announced at a press conference that Denmark and the United States were embarking on a new era of defence cooperation, which might entail the presence of American troops on Danish soil. This is […]
Webinarium: Klasskamp på svenska
Vilka var de finlandssvenskar som verkade i arbetarrörelsen? Kring vilka frågor bedrev finlandssvenska socialister det som kan kallas för klasskamp på svenska? Hur har klasskampen bedrivits och skildrats på svenska i Finland? I antologin Klasskamp på svenska: aktörer, idéer och erfarenheter i 1900-talets finlandssvenska arbetarrörelse analyserar författarna sex olika finlandssvenska socialistiska livsöden. Boken presenteras av […]
NLHN: Migration at the multi-level intersection of industrial relations: the Schleswig-Holstein Campaign and the Swedish garment industry in the early 1950s
An online seminar organized by the Nordic Labour History Network. During the so-called Schleswig-Holstein campaign, about 800 – mostly female – young Germans arrived in Sweden in 1950–1951. The campaign was a German initiative, emphasising vocational training for young and unemployed refugees and expellees, even though it ended up in a more pragmatic labour recruitment. […]
Webinarium: Vad gör en fackförening?
Utifrån Sunes Björkqvists dagliga noteringar i tummade kollegieblock skildras i Vad gör en fackförening? hans och klubbstyrelsens dagliga kamp för jobben och det omfattande stöd som han gav till medlemmar med problem av olika slag. Han hade återkommande möten med chefer, ägare, kunder, riksdagsmän, ministrar, lokala myndigheter, andra fackföreningar inom Nordstjernan, Metallindustriarbetareförbundet centralt, banker samt […]