Varför fortsätter hemindustrin vara en livaktig produktionsform trots att den ofta antas blivit utkonkurrerad av fabriksindustrin redan under tidigt 1800-tal? Vad finns det för likheter mellan hemarbetare i Buenos Aires 1850, Grekland 1930 och Jaipur 2009? Och hur ledde Arbetarbostaden på Skansen till att världens första international för hemarbetarorganisationer hölls i Stockholm 2018? Hör Silke […]
The digital age has transformed historical and labour research. Mass digitization of archival sources, novel computational methods and the rise of the digital public sphere encourage us to re-think how we research labour and write history in the twenty-first century. It is high time to scrutinize the ”digital turn” in the context of labour history and […]
For a long time, Swedish-speaking Finland has been associated with primarily bourgeois politics. Traditionally this identity – and the history of Swedish-speaking Finland – has been presented and understood as more or less uniformly bourgeois. In a new anthology titled ”Klasskamp på svenska: aktörer, idéer och erfarenheter i 1900-talets finlandssvenska arbetarrörelse” (“Class Struggle in Swedish: […]
Välkommen till Meidner-seminariet: Kampen om välfärdsarbetets värde Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek har tilldelat 2021-års Rudolf Meidner-pris till Kristin Linderoth för hennes avhandling Kampen om välfärdsarbetets värde, Fackligt aktiva Kommunalare minns strejken 2003. Boken ger en unik inblick i hur en av de största strejkerna i Sverige – Kommunalstrejken 2003 – upplevdes och tog sig uttryck […]
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 […]
During 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. […]
