Intro -- Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I Denmark -- 2 Denmark 1700-1849: Crowds, Movements and Absolute Monarchy -- Peasant Rage and Food Riots, 1700-1830 -- Outside the Royal Castle: Artisans and Urban Crowds, 1700-1830 -- The First Political Movements and the Soft Fall of Absolute Monarchy, 1831-1849 -- Bibliography -- 3 Denmark 1850-1920: After Absolutism, before Democracy -- Repertoire of Action and Socio-Economic Change after 1850 -- Restoration and the Return of the King, 1850-1870 -- Socialists, Liberals and Conservatives, 1870-1885 -- The Protest Wave that Changed the Danes, 1885-1888 -- Mass Politics and Movement Society, 1885-1900 -- Rule by the People and Twentieth-Century Protest Repertoire, 1900-1920 -- Bibliography -- 4 Denmark 1914-1939: Popular Struggle in an Age of Mass Politics -- National and Transnational Political Movements -- World War I and the Easter Crisis, 1914-1920 -- Crisis Movements and Anti-Democratic Currents, 1920-1939 -- The Nazi Seizure of Power in Germany in 1933 and Political Tension in Southern Jutland -- Political Protests, Political Campaigns and Youth Mobilization -- Social Democratic and Liberal Class Hegemony -- Bibliography -- 5 Denmark 1940-1946: War, Occupation and Liberation -- Bibliography -- 6 Denmark 1946-2015: Popular Struggle in an Era of Democracy -- International Political Tensions and Domestic Contention -- Business Cycles, Industrial Conflict and Contention -- 1968: Cycle of Protest and New Social Movements -- New Social Movements between Radicalization and Institutionalization -- The Student Movement -- The Squatters' Movement -- The Women's Movement -- The Environmental Movement -- In the Wake of the Cycle of Protest -- A Social Movement Society.

Mobilization of Students and School Pupils -- The anti-EEC Movement -- The Anti-Nuclear Movement -- The New Peace Movements -- The BZ Movement -- Social Movements and the New World Order -- Immigration and Contention -- Other Contemporary Conflicts -- Bibliography -- Part II Norway -- 7 Norway 1750-1850: Riots and Participation -- Contention in the Old Regime before 1814 -- Religious Protest: Conventicle Law of 1741 and the Hauge Movement -- Tax Riots -- Wage Riots -- Farmers' Protest against Privileges, Burghers and Civil Servants -- Food Riots -- Military Strike -- Leadership and Punishment -- Who Participated? -- Contentious Repertoire -- Contention under Absolutism: Summing up in a Norwegian-Danish Comparative Perspective -- 1814 - In Perspective -- The New Regime after 1814 -- Tax Protests in 1818 -- Farmers in Parliament -- Finnish Communities? The March to Stockholm and Carl Axel Gottlund, 1821-1823 -- Square Battle -- Local Government Laws in 1837 -- The Criminal Code in 1842 -- Religious Meetings: The Reforms of 1842 and 1845 -- The Laughter from Below and Historical Reflections on the History of Contention -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 Norway 1850-1940: Six Types of Popular Resistance -- A Cycle of Contention and Defeat, 1847-1852 -- Rise and Fall of Radical Peasantry in the 1860s and 1880s -- Early Socialists, Strikes and Crowds -- Popular Movements From the 1880s - Organized Labour in Particular -- Worker Radicalization From 1910 - Reaching its Limits in the 1930s -- Bygdefolkets Krisehjelp - 'Contentious Men' with 'Viking Blood' -- Long Lines: Deep Social Strife - in Relatively Moderate Forms -- Bibliography -- 9 Norway 1945-2015: Contention and Democracy -- Elites and Social Protest in the Post-War Years -- Labour Unrest -- The European Question -- Environmental Struggle and Sami -- Women, Students and Welfare.

Youth and Squatter Movements -- Xenophobia, the Far Right and Anti-Racism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III Sweden -- 10 Sweden 1740-1880: From Peasant Rebellion to Urban Riots - The Long Process of Democratization -- Swedish Political Culture -- Dalecarlian Rebellion in 1743 -- Rural Movements, 1766-1811 -- Urban Riots: Stockholm at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- The Assassination of Axel Von Fersen in 1810 and the Crusenstolpe Riots in 1838 -- The Riots of 1848 -- Political Reforms and New Movements after 1850 -- Three Waves of Food Riots in the Nineteenth Century -- Stockholm, the Epicentre of Turmoil -- Towards Democracy: The Great Sundsvall Strike in 1879 -- Bibliography -- 11 Sweden 1880-1910: The Age of the Labour Movement -- The Struggles in Malmö, 1890 -- The Strike at Norberg, 1891-1892 -- The Strike for General Voting Rights, 1902 -- The Explosion on the Ship Amalthea, 1908 -- The General Strike, 1909 -- Bibliography -- 12 Sweden 1910-1950: The Contentious Swedes - Popular Struggle and Democracy -- The King's Power or the People's Power, 1910-1921 -- Violent Labour Disputes, 1921-1938 -- Fascism and Anti-Fascism, 1930-1945 -- Post-War Popular Struggle, 1945-1950 -- Bibliography -- 13 Sweden 1950-2015: Contentious Politics and Social Movements between Confrontation and Conditioned Cooperation -- Conceptualizing Protest in the Context of the Swedish Model and its Demise -- Union Action - Challenging the 'Industrial Peace' of the Swedish Model -- Urban Protest and the New Urban Governance -- The Swedish Peace Movement and Covert Intelligence Policing -- Contention Concerning Immigration and Racism - Militancy versus Mainstreaming -- The Swedish Women's Movement and Soft Repression -- Solidarity Movements and Government Aid -- The Global Justice Movement, the 2001 Gothenburg Riots and the New 'Public Order Management System'.

The Environmental Movement: National Institutionalization in Between Local and Global -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part IV Comparison -- 14 A Comparative Perspective on Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia -- Bibliography.

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