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had a profound effect on all who knew her .
This study aims to discover why she was so
remarkable . It explores her early life, her mar-
riage into a prominent German family and
her qualification as an artist . She turned this
into a profession, teaching and exhibiting on
five continents in the 1920s and 1930s . She
always travelled alone, observing the cus-
toms and beliefs of the people she met . In
Australia and New Zealand in 1938 and 1939
she was wrongly suspected of spreading Nazi
propaganda . Her story is also the story of a
heroic group of Wellingtonians who helped
her in the 1940s and valued her friendship
till her death .
margaret sutherland is a senior lectur er
in German at Victoria University of Wellington .
Her research and teaching interests include
German literature from the 19th to the 21st cen-
turies, crime fiction, film and the influence of
German migrants on New Zealand . Her most
recent publication is an essay on Gerhart
Hauptmann’s The Weavers .
Annette Thörnquist •
Åsa-Karin Engstrand (eds .)
Precarious Employment
in Perspective
Old and New Challenges
to Working Conditions in Sweden
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main,
New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
309 pp ., num . tables and graphs
Work & Society . Vol . 70
General Editor: Philippe Pochet
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pb . ISBN 978-90-5201-730-3
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n recent scholarship, the notion of precarious
employment has become increasingly
important when exploring challenges
to working conditions in various contexts .
Both scholars and stakeholders have highlighted
the multifaceted character of this
phenomenon in different countries, regions
and labour markets .
This book explores the emergence of precariousness
in Sweden, a country that has traditionally
been held up as an example when
it comes to the advantages of powerful prolabour
parties and employment security .
The essays provide historical and international
perspectives on the issue, as well as
multi-disciplinary approaches to explaining
the problem . By examining the development
of precarious employment in recent decades
in different settings, ranging from industrial
relations and employment relationships to
consideration of regulation, policy and actual
working conditions in different sectors,
the authors, writing from different disciplinary
perspectives, provide a rich and varied
analysis of precarious employment . They
suggest that the best tool for understanding
the phenomenon is a power relations approach
based on class, gender and ethnicity .
Contents: Annette Thörnquist/Åsa-Karin
Engstrand: Introduction . Precarious Employment
in Perspective • Christer Thörnqvist:
The Most Powerful Industrial Relations in
the World? Pros and Cons of the Swedish Collective
Bargaining System in the Light of the
Laval Conflict • Anders Kjellberg: Trade Unions
and Collective Agreements in a Changing
World • Annette Thörnquist: False Self-
Employment . A Topical but Old Labour Market
Problem • Catharina Calleman: Precarious
Employment in Sweden? Care Work and Domestic
Work in a Twilight Zone between Public
Law and Private Law • Monica Andersson
Bäck: Who Cares about the Carer? New Public
Management in Sweden – the Case of Health
Call Centres • Åsa-Karin Engstrand: Justifying
Precarious Employment? The Struggle
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Machteld Venken
n the aftermath of World War II, two migration
streams entered Belgium: former
allied soldiers from Poland and former Ostarbeiterinnen
from the Soviet Union . This
book focuses on these people’s attempts to
give meaning to their war experiences in
post-war life, and delineates the various processes
they used to understand and articulate
what they had been through . These processes
were shaped not only by the characteristics
of the war experiences themselves,
but also by the changing positions which
these immigrant men and women held within
Straddling the Iron Curtain?
Histoire · Geschichte · History
over Shop Opening Hours • Malin Junestav:
Promoting Employment or Employability?
The Move from Active Labour Market Policy
to Workfare • Paulina de los Reyes: Structural
Discrimination and Causalised Work . An
Intersectional Approach to (un)Equal Conditions
in Swedish Working Life • Ali Osman/
Per Andersson: Precarious Accreditation? Inclusion
of Immigrants in Precarious Labour Market
Positions • Steve Jefferys: How Dark are the
Clouds over Sweden? • Annette Thörnquist/
Åsa-Karin Engstrand: To Conclude .
annette thörnquist is a Senior Researcher
at the Department of Economic History,
Uppsala University . In recent years, she
has also worked as a researcher at the Department
of Work Science, University of Gothenburg,
and at the Institute for Research on Migration,
Ethnicity and Society (REMESO),
Linköping University .
Åsa-karin engstrand is a Research Fellow
at the Institute for Research on Migration,
Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) and a
guest lecturer at the Division of Business Administration,
Department of Management
and Engineering, Linköping University .
Immigrants, Immigrant Organisations, War Memories
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa,
Wien, 2011 . 206 pp ., 3 fig .
Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik . Vol . 1
Herausgegeben von Anna Wolff-Poweska and Piotr Forecki
hb . ISBN 978-3-631-60753-4
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their home and host societies . Looking from
the perspective of the newcomers, this study
examines how they gathered in groups in order
to remember their war experiences, and
how they were integrated into, and/or excluded
from, their home and host societies
over time .
maChteld venken holds a degree in
Slavic Studies and a PhD in History from the
Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven) .
She is a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Ludwig
Boltzmann Institute for European History
and Public Spheres in Vienna .
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