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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
