Labour politics in a naval dockyard: The case of Karlskrona, Sweden c. 1880-1925

International Review of Social History

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 341-369

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1. A word on terminology: the term dockyard is used here in its British sense to denote a shipyard directly owned and managed by the state for the construction and maintenance of naval warships. Not all languages make this distinction between naval dockyard and private shipyard; in Swedish for example the word varv covers both types of organization.
2. Kenneth Lunn, "Labour Culture in Dockyard Towns: A Study of Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham, 1900-1950", Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiednis, 18 (1992), pp. 275-293, 275.
3. Duncan Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918 (Cambridge, 1990). p. 190. Similar assumptions have also been made about France, where "dependence on the state generally assured the triumph of reformist politics in naval shipyard towns"; Donald Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager: Labor Policy in the Naval Shipyards, 1892-1902", International Review of Social History, 30 (1985) pp. 183-206, 202. See also Jean Quellien, "Un milieu ouvrier réformiste: syndicalisme et réformisme à Cherbourg à la 'Belle Époque'", Mouvement Social, 127 (1984), pp. 65-88.
4. Duncan Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918 (Cambridge, 1990). p. 190. Similar assumptions have also been made about France, where "dependence on the state generally assured the triumph of reformist politics in naval shipyard towns"; Donald Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager: Labor Policy in the Naval Shipyards, 1892-1902", International Review of Social History, 30 (1985) pp. 183-206, 202. See also Jean Quellien, "Un milieu ouvrier réformiste: syndicalisme et réformisme à Cherbourg à la 'Belle Époque'", Mouvement Social, 127 (1984), pp. 65-88.
5. Duncan Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918 (Cambridge, 1990). p. 190. Similar assumptions have also been made about France, where "dependence on the state generally assured the triumph of reformist politics in naval shipyard towns"; Donald Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager: Labor Policy in the Naval Shipyards, 1892-1902", International Review of Social History, 30 (1985) pp. 183-206, 202. See also Jean Quellien, "Un milieu ouvrier réformiste: syndicalisme et réformisme à Cherbourg à la 'Belle Époque'", Mouvement Social, 127 (1984), pp. 65-88.
6. See in particular the essays in Kenneth Lunn and Ann Day (eds), History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards (London, 1999). Also M.K. Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth, c.1890-1920" (Ph.D., University of Exeter, 1998).
7. See in particular the essays in Kenneth Lunn and Ann Day (eds), History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards (London, 1999). Also M.K. Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth, c.1890-1920" (Ph.D., University of Exeter, 1998).
8. A welcome and important exception to this tradition is the comprehensive work by Erik Norberg (ed.), Karlskrona varvets historia, 2 vols (Karlskrona, 1993).
9. For the foundation and early history of Karlskrona, see Lars Ericson, "Pionjärer och rustningar 1680-1721", in Norberg, Karlskrona varvets historia, vol. 1.
10. See Eli F. Hecksher, An Economic History of Sweden, transl. Göran Ohlin (Cambridge, MA, 1954).
11. See Trevor Harris, "Government and the Specialised Military Town: The Impact of Defence Policy on Urban Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century", in Michael Bateman and Raymond Riley (eds), The Geography of Defence (London, 1987), pp. 100-140.
12. For late nineteenth-century Swedish defence policy, see Hans Holmén, Försvar och samhällsförändring: Avvägningsfragor i svensk försvarsdebatt 1880-1925 (Gothenburg, 1985).
13. Rune Hillbom, Karlskrona 300 år, del 2, 1870-1930, p. 10. As Hillbom puts it (p.4), "I alla tider har försvarsfrågan för Karlskrona framstått som en fråga om en dräglig framtid."
14. Rune Hillbom, Karlskrona 300 år, del 2, 1870-1930, p. 10. As Hillbom puts it (p.4), "I alla tider har försvarsfrågan för Karlskrona framstått som en fråga om en dräglig framtid."
15. Gäfvert, "Kontinuitet i föränderlig omvärld", pp. 81-202, 106-107.
16. Hörsell, "Från segel och trä", p. 68.
17. See, for example, the centennial history of the labour movement in Karlskrona, which states that dockyard workers quite simply did not dare to form a union. Karlskrona arbetarekommun, Människor och händelser - ett axplock: Karlskrona Arbetarekommun 100 år, 1896-1996, (Karlskrona, 1996).
18. Roger Knight, "From Impressment to Task Work: Strikes and Disruption in the Royal Dockyards, 1688-1788", in Lunn and Day, History of Work and Labour Relations; and Roger Morriss, "Government and Community: The Changing Context of Labour Relations, 1770-1830", in ibid., pp. 21-40.
19. Roger Knight, "From Impressment to Task Work: Strikes and Disruption in the Royal Dockyards, 1688-1788", in Lunn and Day, History of Work and Labour Relations; and Roger Morriss, "Government and Community: The Changing Context of Labour Relations, 1770-1830", in ibid., pp. 21-40.
20. Mavis Waters, "The Dockyardmen Speak Out: Petition and Tradition in Chatham Dockyard, 1860-1906", in ibid., pp. 87-98; idem, "Dockyard and Parliament: A Study of Unskilled Workers in Chatham Yard, 1860-1900", Southern History, 6 (1984), pp. 123-138; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", ch. 2.
21. Mavis Waters, "The Dockyardmen Speak Out: Petition and Tradition in Chatham Dockyard, 1860-1906", in ibid., pp. 87-98; idem, "Dockyard and Parliament: A Study of Unskilled Workers in Chatham Yard, 1860-1900", Southern History, 6 (1984), pp. 123-138; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", ch. 2.
22. Mavis Waters, "The Dockyardmen Speak Out: Petition and Tradition in Chatham Dockyard, 1860-1906", in ibid., pp. 87-98; idem, "Dockyard and Parliament: A Study of Unskilled Workers in Chatham Yard, 1860-1900", Southern History, 6 (1984), pp. 123-138; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", ch. 2.
23. Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager", p. 192.
24. Peter Galliver, "Trade Unionism in Portsmouth Dockyard, 1880-1914: Change and Continuity", in Lunn and Day, History of Work and Labour Relations; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", ch. 2.
25. Peter Galliver, "Trade Unionism in Portsmouth Dockyard, 1880-1914: Change and Continuity", in Lunn and Day, History of Work and Labour Relations; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", ch. 2.
26. Folkrörelsearkiv, FCPF incoming correspondence, head of Engineering Department to varvschefen, 28 July 1914.
27. Ibid., varvschefen to KMF, 24 November 1914 (copy).
28. Ibid., head of Buildings Department to varvschefen, 3 February 1916 (copy).
29. J.M. Haas, A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards 1714-1914 (Lanham, MD, 1994); Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager"; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", p. 47.
30. J.M. Haas, A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards 1714-1914 (Lanham, MD, 1994); Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager"; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", p. 47.
31. J.M. Haas, A Management Odyssey: The Royal Dockyards 1714-1914 (Lanham, MD, 1994); Reid, "The Third Republic as Manager"; Hilson, "Working-class Politics in Plymouth", p. 47.
32. ARAB, FCPF Medlemsbladet, November 1925.
33. Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet, avdelning 96 i Karlskrona: "En Jubileumsskrift" (Karlskrona, 1976).
34. Folkrörelsearkiv, Acc. 1984/67, FCPF outgoing correspondence. Report on branch membership, 14 February 1929.
35. Magnus Wikdahl, Varvets tid: Arbetarliv och kulturell förändring i en skeppsbyggartad (Stockholm, 1992).
36. Thommy Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön: En studie av lönepolitiken, fackföreningarna och rationaliseringarna inom svensk varvsindustri under 1900-talet (Göteborg, 1983).
37. Lars Berggren, Ångvisslans och brickomas värld: Om arbete och facklig organisering vid Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad och Carl Lunds fabrik i Malmö 1840-1905 (Malmö, 1991); Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön.
38. Lars Berggren, Ångvisslans och brickomas värld: Om arbete och facklig organisering vid Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad och Carl Lunds fabrik i Malmö 1840-1905 (Malmö, 1991); Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön.
39. Lars Berggren, Ångvisslans och brickomas värld: Om arbete och facklig organisering vid Kockums Mekaniska Verkstad och Carl Lunds fabrik i Malmö 1840-1905 (Malmö, 1991); Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön.
40. Marmmusei arkiv, protokollsbok, 1913-1917; MVAF minutes, 8 September 1916.
41. Ibid., 12 October 1918; 13 September 1919.
42. Andersson, Försvarsverkens Civila Personals Förbund, p. 11. Björk, Försvarsverkens Civila Personals Förbund, also attributes the first initiative to found a dockyard union to the Stockholm workers only.
43. Andersson, Försvarsverkens Civila Personals Förbund, p. 11. Björk, Försvarsverkens Civila Personals Förbund, also attributes the first initiative to found a dockyard union to the Stockholm workers only.
44. For the Swedish shipbuilding industry see Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön, and Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder. For the British shipbuilding industry, see Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson, The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, MA, 1979).
45. For the Swedish shipbuilding industry see Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön, and Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder. For the British shipbuilding industry, see Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson, The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, MA, 1979).
46. For the Swedish shipbuilding industry see Svensson, Från ackord till månadslön, and Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder. For the British shipbuilding industry, see Sidney Pollard and Paul Robertson, The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, MA, 1979).
47. Peter Hilditch, "The Dockyard in the Local Economy", in M. Duffy et al. (eds), The New Maritime History of Devon, vol. 2 (London, 1994) compared the lack of company provision in Plymouth with the shipbuilding company town of Jarrow in northeast England. For the paternalism of shipbuilding firms in Sweden, see Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, and Wikdahl, Varvets tid.
48. Peter Hilditch, "The Dockyard in the Local Economy", in M. Duffy et al. (eds), The New Maritime History of Devon, vol. 2 (London, 1994) compared the lack of company provision in Plymouth with the shipbuilding company town of Jarrow in northeast England. For the paternalism of shipbuilding firms in Sweden, see Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, and Wikdahl, Varvets tid.
49. Peter Hilditch, "The Dockyard in the Local Economy", in M. Duffy et al. (eds), The New Maritime History of Devon, vol. 2 (London, 1994) compared the lack of company provision in Plymouth with the shipbuilding company town of Jarrow in northeast England. For the paternalism of shipbuilding firms in Sweden, see Stråth, Varvsarbetare i två varvstäder, and Wikdahl, Varvets tid.
50. Lunn, "Labour Culture in Dockyard Towns"; K. Lunn and A. Thomas, "Naval Imperialism in Portsmouth, 1905-1914", Southern History, 10 (1988), pp. 143-159.
51. Lunn, "Labour Culture in Dockyard Towns"; K. Lunn and A. Thomas, "Naval Imperialism in Portsmouth, 1905-1914", Southern History, 10 (1988), pp. 143-159.
52. For British dockyard shiplaunches see Hilson, "Working-class politics in Plymouth", ch. 5.