Crafting the Movement: Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920–1940

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Jenny Jansson

Crafting the Movement

Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920–1940

Jenny Jansson

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English

ILR Press
15 July 2020

European history; Entrepreneurship; Industrial relations & safety; Industrial relations

Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class organizations. She reveals that the leadership of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) was well aware of the identity problems that the left-wing factions had created for the reformist unions.

Crafting the Movement explains how this led labor movement leaders towards a re-formulation of the notion of the worker by constructing an organizational identity that downplayed class struggle and embraced discipline, peaceful solutions to labor market problems, and cooperation with the employers. As Jansson shows, study activities arranged by the Workers' Educational Association became the main tool of the Trade Union Confederation's identity policy in the 1920s and 1930s and its successful outcome paved the way for the well-known ""Swedish Model.""

Thanks to generous funding from Uppsala University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

By: Jenny Jansson
Imprint: ILR Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501750014
ISBN 10: 1501750011
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 July 2020
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jenny Jansson is Researcher and University Teacher in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, and is co-author of the book Trade Unions on YouTube. Follow her on X @JenJansson and @digifacket.

Reviews for Crafting the Movement: Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920–1940

Jansson provides quite informative details and a convincing narrative arc to render the strategies and activities that reformist, rather than revolutionary, labor organizations in Sweden pursued to attain their aims. * Choice * Crafting the Movement is a focused, interesting study of the role of workers' education in the Swedish labor movement. Jansson's study has presented new evidence both on the reformist road of the Social Democratic party in Sweden, and on the road to union-employer collaboration in the Swedish labor market. * EH.net *