Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a
reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as
part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective
bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of
the so-called "Nordic model" can obscure the fact that experiences of
work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout
the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays
collected here represent an ambitious intervention in labour
historiography and European history, exploring themes such as work,
unions, politics and migration from the early modern period to the
twenty-first century.