Roundtable : Digital Labour History and Labour Studies
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 […]
Class Struggle in Swedish in Finland
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: […]
Meidner-seminarium: Kristin Linderoth
Landsorganisationen i Sverige Barnhusgatan 18, Stockholm, SverigeVälkommen 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 […]
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 […]