https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie <header> <p>I dette tidsskrift kan du læse artikler, essays og anmeldelser som alle har arbejderbevægelsens historie som omdrejningspunkt. Tidsskriftet udgives af Selskabet for Forskning i Arbejderbevægelsens Historie (SFAH) og udkommer to gange om året. </p> <p>Tidsskriftet redigeres af en selvstændig redaktion ud fra en rummelig fortolkning af begrebet arbejderhistorie. Det betyder, at tidsskriftet bringer artikler om arbejderbevægelsens historie i Danmark såvel som i resten af verden, men det bringer også artikler om besættelsestiden, den kolde krig, ungdomsoprøret i 68 og en bred vifte af andre emner inden for det 19. og 20. århundredes politiske, sociale og kulturelle historie.</p> <p>De videnskabelige artikler i tidsskriftet peer-reviewes af uafhængige forskere fra vores refereepanel.</p> <p>Vi arbejder løbende på at lægge ældre årgange af tidsskriftet op på tidsskrift.dk. Indtil da kan ældre årgange også tilgås <a href="https://sfah.dk/tidskriftetarbejderhistorie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her</a>.</p> </header> Selskabet for Arbejderhistorie da-DK Arbejderhistorie 0107-8461 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156079 Redaktionen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 1 4 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156079 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156080 Ingrid Nestås Mathiesen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 5 9 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156080 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156081 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">T</span>his article explores writing as both a place of work and a place of battle in the novel <em>Har jeg været her før</em> (“Have i been here before”, 1978) by Sandra Holm. The novel is not a typical worker’s novel in the sense that the main character is not working in e.g. a factory, her job is writing books. but that job also comes with challenges and indeed a precarious life. The novel presents a different type of woman in the 70’s women's literature, a woman who is not a housewife neither a worker, but an artist, that stages herself as a bohemian/flaneur – a position normally held by male writers. The novel contains parodies of male flaneurs that can drink, travel and write as they like, which is not as easy for the female protagonist. furthermore, the protagonist is alone when she is writing and travelling, and therefore also not a part of the women’s movement. in that sense is <em>Har jeg været her før</em> an interesting work, that can shed new light on the 1970’s nordic women’s literature.</p> Olivia Nedergaard Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 10 29 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156081 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156082 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">I</span>n several major works, danish author tove ditlevsen depicted her upbringing in working-class Copenhagen in the 1920s and 30s. Yet she has never been ascribed a central position in the tradition of danish working-class literature. As such ditlevsen is an illustrative example of the masculine bias characterizing the institutionalized narrative of danish working-class literature before the 1970s. Using the case of ditlevsen as its exemplary entry point, the article addresses the marginalization of female writers and perspectives in the construction of the danish tradition. Based on i) the examination of Ditlevsen’s reception in denmark and ii) analytical inquiries into the first two volumes of her memoirs, <em>Childhood</em> (1967) and <em>Youth</em> (1967), the article argues that the main reason for ditlevsen’s edge position in the history of danish working-class literature is that she represents a working-class literariness differing from the political-agitational expressions, which historically has been the predominant focus and ideal in danish working-class literature research and criticism. Approaching and reading ditlevsen as an author of working-class literature thus not only highlights the often-overlooked importance of class and class-experience in several of her works, but also contributes to a critical reflection on the construction of the tradition of danish working-class literature and consequently to an expanding reconfiguration of it.</p> Nicklas Freisleben Lund Magnus Nilsson Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 30 55 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156082 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156214 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">H</span>istorians have recently begun to broaden our ideas of what global histories of capitalism and labor may encompass. ese no longer need to be centred around Europe or the proletariat but may just as well explore how other sites and labor relations were bound up with the global expansions and contractions of capitalist modes of production and accumulation. This article provides a locally grounded account of how capitalism shaped realities in the Danish colonial island of St. Croix (since 1917 part of the US Virgin Islands) after the ‘Fireburn’ labor riots of 1878 and during the subsequent establishment of a ‘free’ labor market. Doing so, it makes the claim that the coming of ‘free labor’was accompanied by an entrenchment of the already emerging view that colonial governing in the Danish West indies had to proceed through exceptional and highly illiberal means. in the colony, the regime that governed the working lives of Afro-Caribbean laborers and their families therefore relied on rationalities of government – or ‘governmentalities’ – that denied the possibility of governing through ‘economic’ mechanisms. instead, the prime means to ensure that ‘free’ laborers managed their freedom as they should was a series of paternalist and highly repressive measures, not least of all an intensive use of prison sentences.</p> Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 84 119 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156214 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156215 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">T</span>he 20th Century saw a series of interventions in the free market by the labour movement: the trade union's wage struggles, the co-operative's effort to provide cheap and better food and housing and the emerging redistributive welfare system in which the state provided social and economic security. This article focuses on one such intervention, namely the municipal Greater Copenhagen milk scheme, which was active between 1940 and 1971. In most cases, the emerging welfare state market interventions did not intervene directly with the property relations of commodity production and distribution. as such, the milk scheme, which was developed in the capital metropolis, was a rare intervention in the otherwise inviolable industrial property right, which shows us that milk was considered an important stable in people’s diet. Aiming to reduce the expenses of milk and dairy products to adjust them to low income and high food expenses among wage earners, the Greater Copenhagen milk scheme forced drastic reductions in the number of companies that processed and sold milk. Thre result was reduced processing costs, which in turn allowed for lower milk prices, making milk much cheaper than other foodstuffs.</p> <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> Henning Bro Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 120 149 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156215 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156216 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">T</span>he article describes the illegal apparatus of the German Communist Party, KPD, 1919-1937 including how some of its members especially from Hamburg came to Denmark after 1933 bringing internal conflicts from there into the small group of german communists in exile in Copenhagen. The illegal apparatus of KPD used different names, but here AM-apparatus is used also for earlier years; am standing for abteilung militärpolitik but also used as anti militarist if some were brought for a court. The apparatus worked closely with advisors from soviet union, its BB section dealing with industrial espionage worked for instance closely with the soviet military intelligence (named gru in 1942), that took over the BB section from KPD in 1934. until 1935 the people from the illegal apparatus were able to better work on the new, harsh situation with Hitler as dictator, but in 1933 one task was still to prepare rebellions, as stalin in moscow still saw the situation in germany as ripe for a communist revolution. From 1935 also the illegal apparatus was hit very hard by detentions of its members. at the same time the new KPD leadership in exile, especially Walter Ulbricht, was against the illegal apparatus, and it was dismantled in two phases 1936-37.</p> Torkil Sørensen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 150 171 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156216 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156201 <p class="p1">Det følgende er et uddrag af det kapitel i Ydes bog NEXØ. Martin Andersen Nexøs liv og værk (2019), som omhandler Ditte Menneskebarn I-V (1917-1921). Dér vil man kunne læse mere om romanværkets tilblivelse og modtagelse.</p> Henrik Yde Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 56 67 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156201 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156202 <p class="p1">Arbejdermuseet er aktuel med udstillingen ’Kvindeliv’ om arbejderbevægelsens kvinder. Med fortællinger om kampe og hverdagsliv igennem 150 år giver udstillingen kvinderne stemmer i historien. Her fortæller Mette Kjær Ovesen, bibliotekar, om researcharbejdet til udstillingen.</p> Mette Kjær Ovesen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 68 81 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156202 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156217 <p class="p1">Dette er en beretning om, hvordan Heinz Neumann (1902-1937), en ledende, men forholdsvis ukendt tysk kommmunist, led samme fatale skæbne, som mange dedikerede kommunister fik i 1930'rnes Sovjet, på trods af deres loyalitet mod den kommunistiske idé helt ind i døden.</p> Erik Rasmussen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 172 208 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156217 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156218 <p class="p1">Da krigen sluttede i 1945, stod Socialdemokratiet med et alvorligt problem: Man havde strakt sig meget langt i samarbejdet med besættelsesmagten. Der var således i høj grad brug for en fortælling, der kunne retfærdiggøre partiets politik. Et vigtigt bidrag til den var Julius Bomholts roman, Blomstrende grene fra 1947. Den blev bragt som føljeton i den socialdemokratiske presse og var dermed sandsynligvis den fortolkning af besættelsestiden, der nåede flest socialdemokratiske vælgere. I dette essay analyseres det hvordan romanen behandler temaerne om samarbejde og modstand. Afsluttende diskuteres romanens betydning for Socialdemokratiets politik efter 1945 og for justeringerne af partiets samfunds- og historieforståelse.</p> Hans Erik Avlund Frandsen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 209 233 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156218 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156219 <p class="p1"><span class="s1">I </span>år er det 100 år siden, at Nina Bang blev udnævnt til minister i Staunings første regering, som sad på magten fra 1924-1926. Hun var den første kvindelige minister i verden i en demokratisk valgt regering og hun blev udnævnt af den første socialdemokratiske statsminister i Danmark. Vi markerer 100-året med et fotoessay og et debatindlæg, der sætter fokus på Nina Bangs politiske eftermæle som mere marxist end feminist samt et genoptryk af en af hendes ordførertaler.&nbsp;</p> Rikke Lie Halberg Jytte Nielsen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156219 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156213 <p>-</p> Rikke Lie Halberg Jytte Nielsen Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 82 83 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156213 https://tidsskrift.dk/arbejderhistorie/article/view/156220 <p>-</p> Anmelderne Copyright (c) 2024 SFAH og forfatterne https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-12-01 2024-12-01 1-2 262 302 10.7146/ah.vi1-2.156220