Jenny Jansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 375913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Jansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansson |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9230-5981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Workers’ Education Over a Hundred Years. Trends in Sweden
Much has been written about Swedish social democracy. In particular, the Social Democratic Party and the Trade Union Confederation for blue-collar workers have been at the centre of scholars’ interest. Less has been written about another essential branch of the labour movement: the workers’ education movement. With few exceptions, education for and by the working class has been organised and practised in countries across the globe. This paper exp…
Political Youth Wings. Schools for Politicians
Youth wings are common side organisations of political parties. Historically, they have been large organisations that have played an important role in introducing young people to politics. However, research has paid little attention to whether and how youth wings function as a school for politicians. To fill this gap, this article analyses Swedish youth wings and their ties to the parent parties. The study consists of three parts: first, an overv…
Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels
Minimum Wages in Global Perspective: Histories, Struggles and Contested Functions
The Nordic Model and the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages
This article explores Sweden’s opposition to the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. Despite broad support for minimum wage legislation across Europe, Swedish trade unions and employer organisations unanimously resisted the directive, fearing that it would undermine the autonomous collective bargaining model. Although the directive includes exemptions for countries with robust collective bargaining systems, concerns persist regarding potentia…
A threat to protest as a winning strategy for the labour movement: Long-term experience from Sweden
This article examines the strategic role of strike threats in advancing labour movement objectives, using a novel dataset of union-employer disputes in Sweden from 1980 to 2023. While strikes have long been central to labour mobilisation, we focus on the underexplored power of strike threats – instances where industrial action is announced but not executed. We theorise that their effectiveness depends on three factors: union characteristics that …
Resonance in an accelerating world: Understanding the emergence and characteristics of post-digital artifacts
Modern society is characterized by technological and social acceleration. Digital devices and technologies have been integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives, from the public to the personal, transforming the material, social and mental worlds at an accelerating rate. To deal with the feeling of acceleration, carefully limiting the number of choices and features in the digital devices we use every day is central in order to facilitate and…
Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery
In this paper we suggest that far too often economic geographic theory has been based on simple core-periphery dualism that mask the reality of creative work in rural or peripheral areas. We take a relational approach and suggest that being on the periphery does not necessarily mean isolation from the centre nor does it mean relegation to lower levels of professional and creative possibilities. The study examines a sample of female contemporary v…
A barrier to sustainable transports? Path dependence and the Swedish tax deduction for commuting
We explore the decisions in Parliament about the Swedish tax deduction for commuting since the 1980s. The aim is to explain the continuity of the tax regulation despite several attempts from motions in Parliament and public investigations to reform it towards environmental goals, e.g., reduced emissions of CO 2 . When reforms have been proposed, the political majority in Parliament has regardless of political colour voted against and retreated to…
Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs: Identity formation in the Swedish trade union movement in the 1920s
This article explores how cohesive labour movements are created. Although overlooked by previous research, strategic labour leaders that act as identity entrepreneurs can play a decisive role in class formation processes. Using the Swedish trade union movement during the crucial period from 1910 through the 1930s as a case, I examine the labour leaders' strategic actions to create cohesiveness in the movement. Being pressured by emerging left-win…
Political campaigns on YouTube: Trade unions’ mobilisation in Europe
Trade unions are called to increase their influence on policy‐making by becoming more politically active and use social media, but only a few studies investigate unions’ online political activism. We propose that industrial relations regime of a country relates to unions’ perceived opportunities for mobilisation and thereby also unions’ online political activism. We test this argument with the help of data about European trade union confederation…
The online forum as a digital space of curation
This paper focus on the concept of curation that emphasizes intermediary processes sorting and filtering the information overload that characterize contemporary digitalized society. The paper has two overall aims. The first aim is theoretical and the ambition is to identify practices and processes distinctive to curation in digital spaces. From this literature the paper argues that contemporary digital curation is characterized by (a) digitally p…
Conceptualizing curation in the age of abundance: The case of recorded music
The contemporary marketplace for cultural products, such as music, fashion and film, features an abundance of goods, services and experiences. While producers struggle to differentiate and monetize their offerings, some consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of choice and information available to them. As a result, many consumers are turning to a range of intermediaries who help them make sense of the marketplace. While intermediation is nothing…
Death by streaming or vinyl revival? Exploring the spatial dynamics and value-creating strategies of independent record shops in Stockholm
The contemporary retail landscape is in flux, and there is a growing perception that shopping at bricks and mortar stores is more expensive and time-consuming than shopping online. For music, illegal downloading and streaming have restructured the retail landscape and put thousands of record shops out of business. Yet, some retailers remain attractive consumption spaces. Drawing on a qualitative case study of independent record shops in Stockholm…
Class Formation in Sweden and Britain: Educating Workers
The European labor movements developed in different directions during the twentieth century. The class formation literature has tried to explain these differences but left unexplored the internal dynamics of the labor movement and, above all, the differences in ideological schooling. Workers’ education constitutes a forum for ideological schooling of members, and these educational settings can be identity constitutive and thus play an important p…
From movement to organization: Constructing identity in Swedish trade unions
This study argues that re-formation of working-class identity was crucial for the construction of a cohesive labour movement in Sweden. Analysis of the materials used in trade union study circles in the 1920s and 1930s reveals that the organizational identity constructed by the leadership was closely linked to the organization as a phenomenon rather than to the class structure on which it was based. This was a response to the left-wing organizati…
Emerging (internet) industry and agglomeration: Internet entrepreneurs coping with uncertainty
Emerging industries are not rare elements in the economy; rather, they constitute a permanent feature in constantly developing and changing economic environments. However, the emergence of new industries is rarely painless or particularly straightforward processes; actors involved in these processes are confronted with uncertainties of which some are exclusive to emerging industries. A distinctive example of these processes was the emergence of t…
Quality and Regional Competitiveness
Recent literature on competitiveness has focused on innovation and industrial dynamics. In this paper it is argued that innovation is not enough when competing on global markets, at least in certain types of industries where performance, standards, and perceptions of the product are at the forefront. In addition to existing theory, we focus on the role of 'quality' in creating and sustaining regional competitive advantage. A theoretical framework…
Fashioning a Global City: Global City Brand Channels in the Fashion and Design Industries
Jansson J. and Power D. Fashioning a global city: global city brand channels in the fashion and design industries, Regional Studies. This paper approaches the ways in which fashion and design-based industrial actors contribute to creating images and myths that support global-city status. It is suggested that multi-channel systems of brand building and differentiation exist at regional and local levels, supportive of, and constituted by, cultural …
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs
This article contributes to an understanding of temporary or event-based economic phenomena in economic and industrial geography by drawing on research conducted on the furniture and interior design industry. It argues that trade fairs should be seen not simply as temporary industry gatherings, but as central, though temporary, spaces for knowledge and market processes that symbolize microcosms of the industry they represent and function as effec…
The emergence of a post-industrial music economy? Music and ICT synergies in Stockholm, Sweden
Fashioning a Global City: Global City Brand Channels in the Fashion and Design Industries
Jansson J. and Power D. Fashioning a global city: global city brand channels in the fashion and design industries, Regional Studies. This paper approaches the ways in which fashion and design-based industrial actors contribute to creating images and myths that support global-city status. It is suggested that multi-channel systems of brand building and differentiation exist at regional and local levels, supportive of, and constituted by, cultural …
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs
This article contributes to an understanding of temporary or event-based economic phenomena in economic and industrial geography by drawing on research conducted on the furniture and interior design industry. It argues that trade fairs should be seen not simply as temporary industry gatherings, but as central, though temporary, spaces for knowledge and market processes that symbolize microcosms of the industry they represent and function as effec…
The emergence of a post-industrial music economy? Music and ICT synergies in Stockholm, Sweden
Conceptualizing curation in the age of abundance: The case of recorded music
The contemporary marketplace for cultural products, such as music, fashion and film, features an abundance of goods, services and experiences. While producers struggle to differentiate and monetize their offerings, some consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of choice and information available to them. As a result, many consumers are turning to a range of intermediaries who help them make sense of the marketplace. While intermediation is nothing…
Death by streaming or vinyl revival? Exploring the spatial dynamics and value-creating strategies of independent record shops in Stockholm
The contemporary retail landscape is in flux, and there is a growing perception that shopping at bricks and mortar stores is more expensive and time-consuming than shopping online. For music, illegal downloading and streaming have restructured the retail landscape and put thousands of record shops out of business. Yet, some retailers remain attractive consumption spaces. Drawing on a qualitative case study of independent record shops in Stockholm…
The online forum as a digital space of curation
This paper focus on the concept of curation that emphasizes intermediary processes sorting and filtering the information overload that characterize contemporary digitalized society. The paper has two overall aims. The first aim is theoretical and the ambition is to identify practices and processes distinctive to curation in digital spaces. From this literature the paper argues that contemporary digital curation is characterized by (a) digitally p…
Class Formation in Sweden and Britain: Educating Workers
The European labor movements developed in different directions during the twentieth century. The class formation literature has tried to explain these differences but left unexplored the internal dynamics of the labor movement and, above all, the differences in ideological schooling. Workers’ education constitutes a forum for ideological schooling of members, and these educational settings can be identity constitutive and thus play an important p…
Quality and Regional Competitiveness
Recent literature on competitiveness has focused on innovation and industrial dynamics. In this paper it is argued that innovation is not enough when competing on global markets, at least in certain types of industries where performance, standards, and perceptions of the product are at the forefront. In addition to existing theory, we focus on the role of 'quality' in creating and sustaining regional competitive advantage. A theoretical framework…
From movement to organization: Constructing identity in Swedish trade unions
This study argues that re-formation of working-class identity was crucial for the construction of a cohesive labour movement in Sweden. Analysis of the materials used in trade union study circles in the 1920s and 1930s reveals that the organizational identity constructed by the leadership was closely linked to the organization as a phenomenon rather than to the class structure on which it was based. This was a response to the left-wing organizati…
Political campaigns on YouTube: Trade unions’ mobilisation in Europe
Trade unions are called to increase their influence on policy‐making by becoming more politically active and use social media, but only a few studies investigate unions’ online political activism. We propose that industrial relations regime of a country relates to unions’ perceived opportunities for mobilisation and thereby also unions’ online political activism. We test this argument with the help of data about European trade union confederation…
Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery
In this paper we suggest that far too often economic geographic theory has been based on simple core-periphery dualism that mask the reality of creative work in rural or peripheral areas. We take a relational approach and suggest that being on the periphery does not necessarily mean isolation from the centre nor does it mean relegation to lower levels of professional and creative possibilities. The study examines a sample of female contemporary v…
A barrier to sustainable transports? Path dependence and the Swedish tax deduction for commuting
We explore the decisions in Parliament about the Swedish tax deduction for commuting since the 1980s. The aim is to explain the continuity of the tax regulation despite several attempts from motions in Parliament and public investigations to reform it towards environmental goals, e.g., reduced emissions of CO 2 . When reforms have been proposed, the political majority in Parliament has regardless of political colour voted against and retreated to…
The emergence of a post-industrial music economy? Music and ICT synergies in Stockholm, Sweden
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs
This article contributes to an understanding of temporary or event-based economic phenomena in economic and industrial geography by drawing on research conducted on the furniture and interior design industry. It argues that trade fairs should be seen not simply as temporary industry gatherings, but as central, though temporary, spaces for knowledge and market processes that symbolize microcosms of the industry they represent and function as effec…
Fashioning a Global City: Global City Brand Channels in the Fashion and Design Industries
Jansson J. and Power D. Fashioning a global city: global city brand channels in the fashion and design industries, Regional Studies. This paper approaches the ways in which fashion and design-based industrial actors contribute to creating images and myths that support global-city status. It is suggested that multi-channel systems of brand building and differentiation exist at regional and local levels, supportive of, and constituted by, cultural …
Emerging (internet) industry and agglomeration: Internet entrepreneurs coping with uncertainty
Emerging industries are not rare elements in the economy; rather, they constitute a permanent feature in constantly developing and changing economic environments. However, the emergence of new industries is rarely painless or particularly straightforward processes; actors involved in these processes are confronted with uncertainties of which some are exclusive to emerging industries. A distinctive example of these processes was the emergence of t…
Quality and Regional Competitiveness
Recent literature on competitiveness has focused on innovation and industrial dynamics. In this paper it is argued that innovation is not enough when competing on global markets, at least in certain types of industries where performance, standards, and perceptions of the product are at the forefront. In addition to existing theory, we focus on the role of 'quality' in creating and sustaining regional competitive advantage. A theoretical framework…
From movement to organization: Constructing identity in Swedish trade unions
This study argues that re-formation of working-class identity was crucial for the construction of a cohesive labour movement in Sweden. Analysis of the materials used in trade union study circles in the 1920s and 1930s reveals that the organizational identity constructed by the leadership was closely linked to the organization as a phenomenon rather than to the class structure on which it was based. This was a response to the left-wing organizati…
Class Formation in Sweden and Britain: Educating Workers
The European labor movements developed in different directions during the twentieth century. The class formation literature has tried to explain these differences but left unexplored the internal dynamics of the labor movement and, above all, the differences in ideological schooling. Workers’ education constitutes a forum for ideological schooling of members, and these educational settings can be identity constitutive and thus play an important p…
Death by streaming or vinyl revival? Exploring the spatial dynamics and value-creating strategies of independent record shops in Stockholm
The contemporary retail landscape is in flux, and there is a growing perception that shopping at bricks and mortar stores is more expensive and time-consuming than shopping online. For music, illegal downloading and streaming have restructured the retail landscape and put thousands of record shops out of business. Yet, some retailers remain attractive consumption spaces. Drawing on a qualitative case study of independent record shops in Stockholm…
Conceptualizing curation in the age of abundance: The case of recorded music
The contemporary marketplace for cultural products, such as music, fashion and film, features an abundance of goods, services and experiences. While producers struggle to differentiate and monetize their offerings, some consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of choice and information available to them. As a result, many consumers are turning to a range of intermediaries who help them make sense of the marketplace. While intermediation is nothing…
The online forum as a digital space of curation
This paper focus on the concept of curation that emphasizes intermediary processes sorting and filtering the information overload that characterize contemporary digitalized society. The paper has two overall aims. The first aim is theoretical and the ambition is to identify practices and processes distinctive to curation in digital spaces. From this literature the paper argues that contemporary digital curation is characterized by (a) digitally p…
Political campaigns on YouTube: Trade unions’ mobilisation in Europe
Trade unions are called to increase their influence on policy‐making by becoming more politically active and use social media, but only a few studies investigate unions’ online political activism. We propose that industrial relations regime of a country relates to unions’ perceived opportunities for mobilisation and thereby also unions’ online political activism. We test this argument with the help of data about European trade union confederation…
A barrier to sustainable transports? Path dependence and the Swedish tax deduction for commuting
We explore the decisions in Parliament about the Swedish tax deduction for commuting since the 1980s. The aim is to explain the continuity of the tax regulation despite several attempts from motions in Parliament and public investigations to reform it towards environmental goals, e.g., reduced emissions of CO 2 . When reforms have been proposed, the political majority in Parliament has regardless of political colour voted against and retreated to…
Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs: Identity formation in the Swedish trade union movement in the 1920s
This article explores how cohesive labour movements are created. Although overlooked by previous research, strategic labour leaders that act as identity entrepreneurs can play a decisive role in class formation processes. Using the Swedish trade union movement during the crucial period from 1910 through the 1930s as a case, I examine the labour leaders' strategic actions to create cohesiveness in the movement. Being pressured by emerging left-win…
Resonance in an accelerating world: Understanding the emergence and characteristics of post-digital artifacts
Modern society is characterized by technological and social acceleration. Digital devices and technologies have been integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives, from the public to the personal, transforming the material, social and mental worlds at an accelerating rate. To deal with the feeling of acceleration, carefully limiting the number of choices and features in the digital devices we use every day is central in order to facilitate and…
Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery
In this paper we suggest that far too often economic geographic theory has been based on simple core-periphery dualism that mask the reality of creative work in rural or peripheral areas. We take a relational approach and suggest that being on the periphery does not necessarily mean isolation from the centre nor does it mean relegation to lower levels of professional and creative possibilities. The study examines a sample of female contemporary v…
Political Youth Wings. Schools for Politicians
Youth wings are common side organisations of political parties. Historically, they have been large organisations that have played an important role in introducing young people to politics. However, research has paid little attention to whether and how youth wings function as a school for politicians. To fill this gap, this article analyses Swedish youth wings and their ties to the parent parties. The study consists of three parts: first, an overv…
Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels
Minimum Wages in Global Perspective: Histories, Struggles and Contested Functions
The Nordic Model and the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages
This article explores Sweden’s opposition to the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. Despite broad support for minimum wage legislation across Europe, Swedish trade unions and employer organisations unanimously resisted the directive, fearing that it would undermine the autonomous collective bargaining model. Although the directive includes exemptions for countries with robust collective bargaining systems, concerns persist regarding potentia…
A threat to protest as a winning strategy for the labour movement: Long-term experience from Sweden
This article examines the strategic role of strike threats in advancing labour movement objectives, using a novel dataset of union-employer disputes in Sweden from 1980 to 2023. While strikes have long been central to labour mobilisation, we focus on the underexplored power of strike threats – instances where industrial action is announced but not executed. We theorise that their effectiveness depends on three factors: union characteristics that …
Workers’ Education Over a Hundred Years. Trends in Sweden
Much has been written about Swedish social democracy. In particular, the Social Democratic Party and the Trade Union Confederation for blue-collar workers have been at the centre of scholars’ interest. Less has been written about another essential branch of the labour movement: the workers’ education movement. With few exceptions, education for and by the working class has been organised and practised in countries across the globe. This paper exp…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)