Roundtable: Digital Labour History OBS! CANCELLED
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 21st century (see Technology and […]
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 […]
Roundtable: Perspectives on Labour History
Welcome to a NLHN roundtable (digital) on different perspectives on labour history research. Labour history with a special focus on labour process studies has been the subject for analysis in the anthology Från arbetets horisont. Perspektiv på historisk forskning om arbete och samhälle under kapitalismen (From the horizon of work. Perspectives on historical research on […]
Roundtable : Digital Labour History and Labour Studies
The digital age has transformed historical and labour research. Mass digitization of archival sources, novel computational methods and the rise of the digital public sphere encourage us to re-think how we research labour and write history in the twenty-first century. It is high time to scrutinize the ”digital turn” in the context of labour history and […]