The point of departure of this seminar organised by Kar Klare, Silvana Sciarra and Bo Stråth was the major shift in the view on work which has occurred since the 1970s. The language of flexibility, deregulation and globalisation tried to cope with this change but hardly did so exhaustively, as little as the continued invocation of full employment did.
Johannes U. Müller, Bo Stråth (eds.), Nationalism and Modernity. EUI Working Papers HEC No. 99/1. Badia Fiesolana, San Domenico 1999 Abstract The EUI workshop that resulted in this working paper brought together John Breuilly and Otto Dann, two major scholars in...
Perspectives East and West Bo Stråth, Nina Witoszeck (eds.), The Postmodern Challenge: Perspectives East and West. Postmodern Studies 27. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1999 Abstract This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature,...
Two workshops in 1999 explored the Transatlantic relationships, similarities, and differences between the USA and Europe in terms of culture, politics, consumption patterns, and production styles.
LO och den svenska modellen Mellan två fonder: LO och den svenska modellen. Atlas, Stockholm 1998. 339 pp. Abstract Mellan två fonder(Between two Funds)Bo Stråth Mellan två fonder deals with the emergence of the idea of a Swedish model and the role of the Swedish...
Bo Stråth’s EUI seminar 1997-2001 drew on and fed back to the research work within the project The Cultural Construction of Communities in the Process of Modernisation in Comparison. During these years, the project prepared several edited volumes. The work on the volumes provided input for the seminars and vice versa. The most important seminars are listed here.
Øystein Sørensen, Bo Stråth (eds.), The Cultural Construction of Norden. Scandinavian University Pres, Oslo 1997 Abstract Increasingly transnationally organized economies and the developments in Europe in the wake of 1989 have put the question of "Norden" on the...
Planung und gesellschaftliche Steuerung in den beiden deutschen Staaten und in Schweden 1945-1980 Hannes Siegrist, Bo Stråth (Hg), Wohnungsbau im internationalen Vergleich. Planung und gesellschaftliche Steuerung in den beiden deutschen Staaten und in Schweden...
Modernity, culture and governance in Germany, Sweden, Britain and Japan, Bo Stråth Organisation of Labour Markets: Governance, Culture and Modernity in Germany, Sweden, Britain and Japan. Routledge, London 1996 Abstract There have been dramatic shifts in the...
Ett historiskt perspektiv på 90-talet Folkhemmet mot Europa: Ett historiskt perspektiv på 90-talet. Tiden, Stockholm 1993. 352 pp. Abstract The vision of the Swedish folkhemmet, "people's home", and the concept of neutrality have characterised Swedish political...
