Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2218848
Johan Heinsen, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Hanne Østhus
ABSTRACT This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfree labour, productive and unproductive labour, wage labour and unpaid labour, and focused rather on the entangled history of labour and coercion in its various guises. Based on a critical discussion of the teleological frameworks and essentialized analytical categories that have largely characterized the historiography of labour in many of the Nordic countries, we argue for shifting the focus of attention to study the actual practices of labour and coercion in order to establish a more inclusive, contextual and historicized historiography of Nordic labour.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2210153
Carolina Uppenberg
ABSTRACT In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, characterized by corvée labour (obligatory work as payment), from the perspective of gender and coercion. The purpose is to answer the question of how the crofter institution was created, shaped, enabled and questioned. The right to establish a croft made the position as head of household available for men but it also increased social stratification. While crofters were masters of their households in contract signing, their position was ambiguous when it came to the organization of labour. Regarding physical integrity, crofters could be forced by physical violence and were subject to rules not connected to work, such as subservience. I argue that this was made acceptable through marriage and allowing the position as head of household to landless men. Crofters held an intermediate position, caught between the market logic of leasehold of land and the coercive logic of labour extraction, and this continued to colour the crofter institution until its final dissolution in 1943.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2211981
John L. Hennessey
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2207571
Julian Lamberty, Jeppe Nevers
ABSTRACT Many historians have argued that the Nordic welfare societies underwent a major transformation in the later decades of the 20th century, and neoliberalism has been identified as a key driver of this transformation. This article contributes to this field of contemporary history as it addresses the rhetoric and role of organized business in Denmark’s neoliberal turn, focusing especially on the Confederation of Danish Industry. Using conceptual historical methodology, the article identifies a rhetoric of competitiveness in the communication of organized business and traces how this rhetoric changed from 1970s to 2010s. This leads to the identification of two discontinuities. First, the article shows how the 1980s saw a transformation in which the industrialists increasingly called for state engagement to further competitiveness in the private sector, especially in relation to research and innovation. Second, the article shows how the 2010s saw a transformation in which the rhetoric of competitiveness adopted ideas about sustainability. What emerges from this analysis is a rather pragmatic version of neoliberalism that was born out of business interests and which since the late 1980s was developed as an integrated part of a consensus in the Danish policy elite.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2200805
Kimmo Katajala
ABSTRACT In 1581 King John III of Sweden added Grand Duke of Finland to his royal title. Traditionally, this has been seen as marking the Swedish army”s victories in the Swedish-Russian war, as challenging the power and rule of Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan IV or explained in the context of early modern state formation. This article seeks to understand the logic of taking the title of grand duke as a continuum of medieval patterns of thought about princely power and rule. Ruling lands, vassals, and people were still very much connected with the ruler’s person and princely and dynastic powers understood in the medieval way. Princely titles played a crucial role in this game of – sometimes even overlapping – powers.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2206409
Magnus Bergman, Martin Dackling
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2200783
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
ABSTRACT This article explores representations of Jews and different ways of how ‘the Jew’ was used and mediated in the Swedish press in relation to the idea of the Swedish nation during the period 1810–1840. Based on Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of ‘the conceptual Jew’, this article explores how ‘the Jew’ was used to define identities in the emerging Swedish nation. Implicitly, discussions about ‘the Jew’ often revolved around the dismantling of the estate society. Although challenged, antisemitic notions were prevailing, and a fear that Jewish emancipation would damage the Swedish economy was frequently expressed. In many ways, discourses articulated in the Swedish press mirrored ideas common across Europe. There was not one mediated ‘Jew’ in the Swedish press but a plurality: foreign, honest, and usurer are explicit in the material. Writers occasionally distinguished between Orthodoxy, which was portrayed as unassimilable, and Reform, which was described as more in line with contemporary Christian society. I conclude that differences within liberalism and ideas of national belonging were to some extent defined and discussed in relation to ‘the Jew’.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2197916
Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
ABSTRACT The historiography of labour in pre-industrial Iceland has commonly portrayed it first and foremost as life-cycle service in rural households and has suggested that, in a European context, the Icelandic system of compulsory service – or vistarband – was exceptionally harsh due to its broad scope and inflexibility. This approach has been built primarily on demographics and a normative analysis of legal sources. Less attention has been paid to the everyday practices of workers and their employers (or the state) as they manoeuvred within and around the labour legislation to establish working relationships to make ends meet. Similarly, ambiguities within the legislation and discrepancies between law and practice have rarely been explored, nor has people’s understanding of the principal concepts of the labour laws, concepts such as ‘household’, ‘farm’ and ‘servant’, been scrutinized. This article invokes such questions and provides a microhistorical analysis of two court cases which illustrate the nuances and ambiguities of putting such a broad-reaching set of regulations into practice in a pre-industrial rural setting.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2198538
E. Marklund
ABSTRACT This study examines the life and career trajectories of teachers recruited to primary schools in coastal northern Sweden. A variety of historical sources are combined to construct collective biographies which include approximately 500 primary school teachers divided in four birth cohorts. Main findings show that women teachers with a teaching certificate came to constitute a majority of the teachers from the 1870s and onwards in the rural region studied. These women teachers were increasingly inclined to form a family of their own and the share that never became mothers decreased continuously during the studied period. Furthermore, among those who formed a family the practice to return to work when the children were older increased over time. Towards the end of the 19th century having children became an increasingly available option among women teachers and a few decades later it had become common. In sum, through the combination of multiple sources, this study suggests that women primary school teachers in Sweden were able to combine family and teaching well before these rights were protected by law in 1939.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-19DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879
Max Skjönsberg
ABSTRACT Nils von Rosenstein’s Försök til en afhandling om uplysningen, til dess beskaffenhet, nytta och nödvändighet för samhället (An Attempt at a Dissertation on the Enlightenment, its Character, Usefulness and Necessity for Society), published in 1793, presents an unusually comprehensive theory of ‘the Enlightenment’ (Upplysningen) from a contemporary of the period. This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text. While deepening our understanding of the Enlightenment in Sweden, it also expands our knowledge of the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment abroad, the scholarship on which has been mainly focused on Germany. Sweden is further shown to be a fruitful case study for considering the politicization of the late Enlightenment independently of the French Revolution. The French Revolution formed a key part of the political backdrop to the publication of the Dissertation, but its intellectual content was more indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment. Rosenstein’s pragmatic and contextual approach to politics is often explained away by the precarious climate after Gustav III’s assassination. Instead, this article shows that it is better understood as a style of thought which Rosenstein had in common with the leading thinkers of eighteenth-century Scotland.
尼尔斯·冯·罗森斯坦(Nils von Rosenstein)于1793年出版的《Försök til en afhandling om uplysningen, til dess beskaffenet, nytta och nödvändighet för samhället》(一篇关于启蒙运动及其特征、有用性和社会必要性的论文的尝试)，提出了一个来自同一时期的不同寻常的全面的“启蒙运动”(Upplysningen)理论。本文通过对罗森斯坦和他的杰出文本的个案研究，探讨了启蒙思想对18世纪晚期瑞典的影响。它在加深我们对瑞典启蒙运动的了解的同时，也扩大了我们对苏格兰启蒙运动在国外的影响的认识，而苏格兰启蒙运动的学术研究主要集中在德国。瑞典进一步被证明是独立于法国大革命之外考虑晚期启蒙运动政治化的一个富有成效的案例研究。法国大革命形成了《博士论文》出版的政治背景的关键部分，但其知识内容更多地归功于苏格兰启蒙运动。罗森斯坦对政治的务实和情境化的态度常常被古斯塔夫三世被暗杀后不稳定的气候所解释。相反，这篇文章表明，最好将其理解为罗森斯坦与18世纪苏格兰主要思想家共同的一种思想风格。
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