List of Illustrations List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Labour, Unions and Politics in the Nordic Countries, c.1700–2000 Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger, Iben Vyff, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 1. Connecting Labour: Organizing Swedish Ironmaking in an Atlantic Context Göran Rydén and Chris Evans Chapter 2. ‘Forest Men’: How Scandinavian Loggers’ Understandings of ‘Real Men’ and ‘Real Work’ are Rooted in Personal Narratives and Popular Culture about Forest Life Ingar Kaldal Chapter 3. Diverse, rather than Desperate: Housewifization and Industrial Home Work in Sweden, 1906–1912 Malin Nilsson Chapter 4. Housemaids of the Past and Au Pairs of Today in Denmark: Do They Have Anything in Common? Helle Stenum Chapter 5. Trade Unionism in Denmark, 1870–1940 – from the Perspective of Work Knud Knudsen Chapter 6. Labour Migration and Industrial Relations: Recruitment of Foreign-Born Workers to the Swedish Engineering Industry after the Second World War Johan Svanberg Chapter 7. Land Agitation and the Rise of Agrarian Socialism in South-Western Finland, 1899–1907 Sami Suodenjoki Chapter 8. Strike in Finland, Revolution in Russia: The Role of Workers in the 1905 General Strike in the Grand Duchy of Finland Marko Tikka Chapter 9. Radicalism or Integration: Socialist and Liberal Parties in Norway, 1890–1914 Einar A. Terjesen Chapter 10. ‘Norden’ as a Transnational Space in the 1930s: Negotiated Consensus of ‘Nordicness’ in the Nordic Cooperation Committee of the Labour Movement Mirja Österberg Chapter 11. Facing the Nation: Nordic Communists and their National Contexts, from the 1920s and into the Cold War Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir Chapter 12. Tallinn – Stockholm – Hamburg – Copenhagen – Oslo: The Northern Dimension of the Comintern’s Global Network and Underground Activities, 1920–1940 Holger Weiss Chapter 13. Danish Cadres at the Moscow Party School, 1958–1960 Chris Holmsted Larsen Index