{"id":18054,"date":"2021-10-08T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=18054"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:46:46","slug":"transformation-of-fordism-1919-1966","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/events\/transformation-of-fordism-1919-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Book presentation: Between Denmark and Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to a NLHN webinar where Lars K Christensen presents his book <em>Between Denmark and Detroit Ford Motor Company A\/S and the Transformation of Fordism 1919\u20131966<\/em> .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1919 Ford Motor Company A\/S established an assembly plant in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant, which operated until 1966, was the company\u2019s first on the European mainland, and became a bridgehead for Ford into the Nordic countries.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1920\u2019s, Fordism in Detroit was based on autocratic management and militant anti-unionism. But as Fordism came to Denmark and Europe, it was transformed. The book traces this transformation, in the context of the Copenhagen plant. It argues, that resistance from organised labour \u2013 directly or indirectly \u2013 was a major cause for changing Fordism to what it became in the post-war period: a class compromise, based on high productivity, high wages, and collective bargaining,<\/p>\n<p>Lars K Christensen holds a Ph D in labour history. He is head of Research and Heritage Management at the ROMU museums group, Roskilde, Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizer:<\/strong> Nordic Labour History Network (NLHN)<\/p>\n<p>The webinar is open but requires registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a NLHN webinar where Lars K Christensen presents his book Between Denmark and Detroit Ford Motor Company A\/S and the Transformation of Fordism 1919\u20131966 . In 1919 Ford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18055,"template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[96085,96084,96083],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18054","1":"tribe_events","2":"type-tribe_events","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"tag-ford-motor-company","7":"tag-fordism","8":"tag-lars-k-christensen","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/18054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/18054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18504,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/18054\/revisions\/18504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}