Jenny Jansson

Researcher at Trade Unions and Student Unions; Staff Unions; The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees; Fackförbundet ST inom universitets- och högskoleområdet, Sektionen vid Uppsala universitet

Visiting address:
Thunbergsv. 7 A
Postal address:
Box 533
751 21 UPPSALA

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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

  • trade union movement
  • labor movement
  • organizational identity
  • e-archive
  • social media
  • sweden
  • germany

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

Jenny Jansson

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