Danish Trade Unionism 1870-1940

Danish Trade Unionism 1870-1940
Author: Knud Knudsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788772107363

An introduction to early Danish trade unionism 1870-1940. Before the Second World War Danish workers were among the best organized in Europe. It is the high level of unionisation which makes Danish trade unionism 1870-1940 an interesting case, in particular the high level of unionisation of unskilled workers, male and female, in a trade union movement based on the craft-principle. In this book key issues of Danish trade unions before 1940 have been examined in order to understand and explain this particular case of successful trade unionism in Europe before 1940. In eight chapters the book examines the organisational structures of Danish trade unions, Scandinavian and international cooperation, the dominance of skill, agitation and ideology of trade unionism, the impact of strikes and industrial conflicts, trade unions and politics, womens work and identities and the work and organisation of unskilled workers -- thereby seeking to explain the success of Danish trade unionism before 1940.

Quiet Politics and Business Power

Quiet Politics and Business Power
Author: Pepper D. Culpepper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139491857

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs and the unraveling of compromises between workers and managers. But the public rarely pays attention to issues of corporate control. As a result, political parties and legislatures are largely absent from this domain. Instead, organized managers get to make the rules, quietly drawing on their superior lobbying capacity and the deference of legislators. These tools, not campaign donations, are the true founts of managerial political influence.

Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
Author: Mary Hilson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785334972

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.

Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1950

Denmark's Social Democratic Government and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1950
Author: Vibeke Sørensen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788772896618

Historian and geographer Sorensen (1952-95) wrote her analysis of Danish political policy towards the Marshall Plan during the middle 1980s, but Rudiger says it continues to be essential reading for historians interested in the immediate postwar period. The new edition drops her chapter on COCOM, because more recent studies have made in superfluous. The rest of the study remains intact. It is not indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Denmark

Denmark
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1993
Genre: Labor supply
ISBN:

The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914

The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789004092761

The twenty-seven articles presented in this volume mark the first stage of an international research project set up after the comprehensive reorganization of the International Institute of Social History in 1987. The aim of this extensive book project is to study the development of working-class movements using comparative research in an international framework in the time-period 1870-1914. Included in this study are papers by experts on as many countries (both European and non-European) as possible with a modern labour movement: Britain, Belgium The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The Czech Workers' Movement in the Habsburg Empire, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, The Jewish Workers' Movement in the Russian Empire, Poland, Finland, United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Japan.