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Arbetets relationer och etniska dimensioner: Verkstadsföreningen, Metall och esterna vid Svenska stålpressnings AB i Olofström 1945 - 1952
In: Linnaeus University Dissertations 9
International trade-unionism and migration: European integration and the post-war 'Free' movement of labour
In: Labor history, Band 62, Heft 5-6, S. 671-687
ISSN: 1469-9702
"The Ruhr Remains our Nightmare": The International Metalworkers' Federation and European Integration in the Early Cold War
In: International review of social history, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 85-110
ISSN: 1469-512X
AbstractThe aim of this article is to study discussions within the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) about the early postwar process of European integration at the intersection of international cooperation and nationally defined interests. The central question is the future of the Ruhr. This article argues that the developing Cold War, and the conflict between social democrats and communists, limited the reach of international trade-union cooperation but simultaneously strengthened the perceived need among social-democratic trade unionists in Western Europe to coordinate their policies in relation to supposed enemies. European integration in combination with the Cold War also highlighted a need to coordinate the resources of European and anti-communist trade unions in North America. The article shows that the IMF generally supported European integration as a defence against the hypothetical threat from the East, but made attempts to sway the process to include a pronounced social dimension.
Migration at the multi-level intersection of industrial relations: the Schleswig-Holstein Campaign and the Swedish garment industry in the early 1950s
In: Scandinavian economic history review, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 54-72
ISSN: 1750-2837
The Contrasts of Migration Narratives. From Germany to the Swedish Garment Industry during the 1950s
In: Journal of migration history, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 131-156
ISSN: 2351-9924
This article combines a migration-systems approach with oral history and a local-level perspective. It focuses on migrant women recruited from Schleswig-Holstein to a Swedish garment factory in the early 1950s. These migrants were around 20 years old and single; about half of them were German wartime refugees and early post-war expellees from Central and Eastern Europe. The article analyses how migrants articulate retrospective narratives, as regards the different steps (background, journey and interactions in the receiving society) of the migration process. It shows how migrants' life stories are narratively constructed around contrastive elements and turning points, which correspond to the three steps of their migration experiences. The article also argues that oral sources can be used both to study subjective dimensions of individual migration experiences, and to illuminate important details of past migrations.