The care workers fight for equal pay in Sweden and Denmark
Welcome to a NLHN talk about the care workers fight for equal pay in Sweden and Denmark. In this seminar Kristin Linderoth and Astrid Elkjær Sørensen give an introduction to the 2003 Swedish Municipal Workers' Union strike for higher wages and to Danish equal pay movements, focusing on activism, strategies and results. After there will […]
Roundtable: Digital Labour History OBS! INSTÄLLT
THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED. A NEW DATE WILL BE SET. Welcome to a NLHN webinar about how the digital age has transformed historical research. Mass digitization of archival sources, novel computational methods and the rise of the digital public sphere encourage us to re-think how we write history in the twenty-first century (see Technology and […]
Bokpresentation: Olle Svenning om Léon Blum
Välkommen till ett författarsamtal där Olle Svenning presenterar sin nya bok Älskar ni mig? Om Léon Blum. Göran Eriksson från Arbetarnas Kulturhistoriska Sällskap, AKS, är moderator. Den franske socialisten Léon Blum (1872–1950) ledde folkfrontsregeringen 1936-1938. Han stannade kvar i Frankrike under ockupationen under andra världskriget och tillhörde den minoritet som vägrade lämna över makten till […]
Book presentation: Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960
Welcome to a NLHN webinar where Ilkka Kärrylä presents his book Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960. The book explores the relationship between democracy and the economy in contemporary political thought and policy-making. Using the concepts of economic, industrial and enterprise democracy, the author focuses on the history of Finland and […]
Roundtable: Social Democracy in the Nordic Countries
Welcome to a NLHN webinar where a panel will discuss research into social democracy history in the Nordic countries. The purpose of the panel is to bring history researchers from every Nordic country to a virtual roundtable to discuss new directions and perspectives on the research into social democracy history and to create a dialogue […]
Universal Suffrage? Voting Restrictions and Disenfranchisement in Sweden after 1921
Welcome to a NLHN digital talk about the book Universal Suffrage? Voting Restrictions and Disenfranchisement in Sweden after 1921. In 2021, Sweden celebrates one hundred years of universal suffrage and what has commonly been described as the end of the struggle for voting rights and democracy. The newly published book Universal Suffrage? Voting Restrictions and […]