Jenny Jansson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 33 31
- E-mail:
- Jenny.Jansson@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- Atterbomska huset, Valvgatan 4
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Keywords
- e-archive
- germany
- labor movement
- organizational identity
- social media
- sweden
- trade union movement
Biography
My research interests include identity formation in the trade union movement, industrial action, minimum wages, labor leaders during the interwar period in Europe, and the labor movement in the age of digitalization.
CV
2020- Senior lecturer and associate professor
2012-2020 researcher and teacher at Department of Government, Uppsala university
2006-2012 PhD student and teacher at Department of Government, Uppsala university.
2011 visiting scholar at the Institute for Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley
2009 Research Coordinator for Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice.
2004 Desk officer at the Nordic-Baltic group, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Government's Office, Stockholm
I coordinate the Workers’ Education Research Network (WERN), for more information, see: https://workerseducationresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/
Prizes
Jansson & Uba were awarded Hartmann's stipend for the book Trade Unions on YouTube 2022.
Crafting the Movement was awarded the Swepsa book prize for best book about Swedish politics 2019-2022.
The article “Vad studerade arbetare i Sverige och Storbritannien?” was awarded the Kjersti Bosdotter prize, https://www.arbark.se/sv/2020/06/kjersti-bosdotter-priset-2019/
The article "From Movement to Organization" was appointed Best Article by a Recent PhD 2013 by the journal Labor History
Manufacturing Consensus was appointed best phd disseration 2012 by the journal Labor History
Publications
Selection of publications
- Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs (2023)
- Cycles of labour protests (2023)
- Re-inventing the self (2022)
- Political campaigns on YouTube (2021)
- Crafting the movement (2020)
- Trade Unions on YouTube (2019)
- Creating Tax-Compliant Citizens in Sweden (2018)
- 11: Two Branches of the Same Tree? Party-union Links in Sweden in the 21st Century (2017)
- Class Formation in Sweden and Britain (2016)
- Schwedische Gewerkschaften auf YouTube (2016)
Recent publications
- Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs (2023)
- Cycles of labour protests (2023)
- Actors Behind Contention Over the Welfare State in the 1980s (2023)
- Trade Unions’ Protest Cycles in Sweden, 1980–2020 (2023)
- Politiskt deltagande (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs (2023)
- Cycles of labour protests (2023)
- Obligatorisk läsning på fackliga utbildningar (2022)
- Re-inventing the self (2022)
- Partiväsendets framväxt i Uppland (2021)
- Political campaigns on YouTube (2021)
- Labor Gone Digital (DigiFacket) (2020)
- Cross-Movement Mobilization and New Modes of Solidarity in Times of Crisis in the Global North and South (2020)
- Unionen (2019)
- Vad studerade arbetare i Sverige och Storbritannien? (2019)
- Organisationsidentitet (2019)
- Bland diplomater, journalister och äventyrare (2018)
- DigiFacket (2018)
- Er forholdet mellom Arbeiderpartiet og LO unikt? (2017)
- Class Formation in Sweden and Britain (2016)
- Schwedische Gewerkschaften auf YouTube (2016)
- Är det så här Rikard Sandler hade pläderat för bildning av arbetarklassen om jag träffat honom på 1910-talet? (2015)
- Från individ till människa (2015)
- Maktkamp i ABF (2015)
- Arbetarrörelsens digitala omvandling (2015)
- Protesternas makt i Sverige (2015)
- Borderland Stories (2014)
- From movement to organization (2013)
- Aktivister eller siffror? (2012)
- Att resa i politikens namn (2011)
Books
- Politiskt deltagande (2023)
- Crafting the movement (2020)
- Trade Unions on YouTube (2019)
- Vänbok till Jörgen Hermansson (2018)
- Manufacturing Consensus (2012)
Chapters
- Actors Behind Contention Over the Welfare State in the 1980s (2023)
- Trade Unions’ Protest Cycles in Sweden, 1980–2020 (2023)
- Technological Shifts and the Social Partners (2021)
- Teknikskiften och arbetsmarknadens parter (2020)
- Svensson, Carl Alfred (2019)
- Creating Tax-Compliant Citizens in Sweden (2018)
- Från individ till människa (2018)
- 11: Two Branches of the Same Tree? Party-union Links in Sweden in the 21st Century (2017)
- De visionära kommunaltjänstemännen (2016)
- Motströms. Kampen mot kraftverket i Sölvbacka strömmar 1972–79 (2016)
- Spindeln i nätet (2012)
Conferences
- Producing Politicians? (2021)
- Notice of Industrial Action (2019)
- National trade union involvement in the European Semester (2019)
- Building Organizations? Content and scope of workers’education in Sweden and Britain (2018)
- Neither Sticks nor Carrots (2018)
- Class Formation in Sweden and Britain: Educating Workers (2016)
- Educating Workers: Class Formation in Sweden and Britain (2015)
Reports
- Neither sticks nor carrots: Swedish trade union involvement in the European Semester (2019)
- Tillit som styrmedel för rektorer (2015)
- Mobilizing and educating via social media: How do Swedish trade unions use YouTube? (2015)
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