Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: connections, ambiguities, practices

Johan Heinsen, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Hanne Østhus

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Abstract

This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfree labour, productive and unproductive labour, wage labour and unpaid labour, and focused rather on the entangled history of labour and coercion in its various guises. Based on a critical discussion of the teleological frameworks and essentialized analytical categories that have largely characterized the historiography of labour in many of the Nordic countries, we argue for shifting the focus of attention to study the actual practices of labour and coercion in order to establish a more inclusive, contextual and historicized historiography of Nordic labour.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScandinavian Journal of History
Vol/bind48
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)551-571
Antal sider21
ISSN0346-8755
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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