Department of Economic History

Sofia Murhem

PhD

Email address:	Sofia.Murhem@ekhist.uu.se
Telephone number:	+46(0)18 4717310
Fax number:	+46(0)18 4711223
Address:	Department of Economic History
	Box 513
	S-751 20 Uppsala
Room number:	A477

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Sofia Murhem is an associate professor at the Uppsala University. She has written on a number of topics on industrial relations, such as European integration and industrial relations, the European social sector dialogue, local co-operation in European works councils, industrial relations in the service sector and European industrial relations in general. Her thesis (2003) dealt with changes in the Swedish industrial relations regime in the 1990s. She is currently conducting research on flexicurity in Sweden, on the effects on wages and industrial relations of privatizations of Swedish elder care and Swedish auctions and consumption in the 18th and 19th century. Sofia Murhem is also heading a project on Swedish pawn-broking between 1850-1950, financed by The Swedish Research Council and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. She is also heading a project on the European industrial relations regime from a gender perspective, financed by FAS. She is also working in a joint Nordic project on immigration of engineers from third countries, financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic Engineer trade unions and the employers’ federations.

Research interests
Post-war industrial relations in Sweden and Europe
Pawn-broking in Sweden 1850-1950

Auctions and consumption in 18th and 19th century Sweden

Keywords
Industrial relations, privatizations, flexicurity, SMEs, public sector, service sector, wages, trade unions, social dialogue, Swedish model, Europeanization, globalisation, consumption, auctions, pawn-broking, credit markets, gender

Publications
Books
Dufour, C., Hege, A., Murhem, S, Rudolph, W & Wasserman, W. (2006) Les petites entreprises et la production des normes sociales, une comparaison Allemagne, France, Suède. Bryssel: PIE Lang. (Also available in English)

Likic - Brboric, B. & Murhem, S. (2004) The Challenge of Industrial Restructuring. Conference Proceedings. Uppsala

Blomqvist, P. & Murhem, S. (red.) (2003) Fackliga strategier för att möta globalisering och regionalisering inom metallindustrin. En jämförande studie av fyra nordiska länder. Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet

Murhem, S. (2003) Turning to Europe: A New Swedish Industrial Relations Regime in the 1990s. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in Economic History (diss.). PDF-document

Chapters in books

Murhem, S., Ulväng, G & Lilja, K., (2010) Chairs and tables under the hammer. Second

hand consumption of furniture in 18th and 19th century in Sweden, in Stobart, J. & van Damme, I. Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade. European Consumption Cultures and Practices,

1700-1900. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan

Lilja, K., Murhem, S. & Ulväng, G (2010) Klubbade stolar och bord. Auktionshandel med

möbler 1720-1870, in Nyberg, K. & Andersson, G Kommers. Historiska handlsformer i

Norden under 1700- och 1800-talen. Uppsala: Opuscula Historica Upsaliensia 42.

Magnusson, L. & Murhem, S. (2009) European Integration and Nordic Trade Unions, in Götz, N. and Hagrén, H. (eds.) Regional Cooperation and International Organizations. The Nordic Model in Transnational Alignment. New York/London: Routledge.

Lilja, K., Murhem, S. & Ulväng, G (2009) The Indespensable Market: Auctions in Sweden in the Eigthteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in Blondé, B., Coquery, N., Stobart, J. & Van Damme, I. (eds.) Fashioning Old and New. Changing Consumer Papperns in Western Europe (1650-1900). Berchem:Turnhout.

Murhem, S. (2008) Swedish trade unions and European sector-level industrial relations – goals and strategies, in Rönnmar, M. (ed.) EU industrial relations v. national industrial relations: comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. Leiden: Kluwer Law.

Lilja, K., Murhem, S. & Ulväng, G (2007) Auktionshandel i stad och på landsbygd. Varucirkulationen i Enköping med omnejd under 1700- och 1800-talen, in Ahlberger, C. and Lundqvist, P. (red.) Varans vägar och världar. Handel och konsumtion i Skandinavien ca 1600-1900. Göteborg: Skrifter från Historiska institutionen i Göteborg.

Murhem, S. (2006), Implementation of the Sectoral Social Dialogue in Sweden, in Dufresne, A., Degryse, C. and Pochet, P. (eds.), The European Sectoral Social Dialogue. Actors, Developments and Challenges, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.

Murhem, S. (2006) Suède, i Dufour, C., Hege, A., Murhem, S, Rudolph, W & Wasserman, W. Les petites entreprises et la production des normes sociales, une comparaison Allemagne, France, Suède. Bryssel: PIE Lang.

Murhem, S (2006) Den svenska arbetsmarknaden under 1900-talet, in Morell, M & Hedenborg, S. (eds.) Sverige- En svensk ekonomisk, social och politisk historia. Lund: Studentlitteratur

Murhem, S. (2003) Telekomservice i Sverige, in Colclough, C. (ed.) Liberaliseringens og globaliseringens konsekvenser for de faglige strategier i den nordiske telekommunikationsbranche en komparativ analyse af de faglige organisationers udfordringer og udvikling i Danmark, Norge, Sverige og Finland. Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet/ SALTSA.

Murhem, S. (2001) Sweden: Stability in a Turbulent Environment, in Dölvik, J. E (ed.) At Your Service? Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services. "Work & Society", SALTSA, No.27, Brussels: P.I.E.Peter Lang.

Murhem, S. (2000) Labour Market Situation and Labour Market Policies in the Region Uppsala/Sweden, in Prigge, R. et al. (eds.) Strategien Regionaler Beschäftigungsförderung. Schweden, Österreich und Deutschland im Vergleich. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag.

Murhem, S. & Ottosson, J. (2000) The Changing Foundations of Swedish Model Labour Market Policies, in Prigge, R. et al. (eds.) Strategien Regionaler Beschäftigungsförderung. Schweden, Österreich und Deutschland im Vergleich. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag

Articles in journals
Lilja, K., Murhem, S. & Ulväng, G (2006) Den glömda konsumtionen, in Historisk Tidskrift nr 1.

Research reports
Blomqvist, P. & Murhem, S. (2003) Facket och globaliseringen inom metallindustrin. En studie av de svenska fackförbundens strategier. Uppsala: Svensk modell i förändring forskningsrapport 2003:5

Murhem, S. (2001) The Local Aspect. Changes of Swedish Labour Market Policy and Industrial Relations in the 1990s. Uppsala: Svensk modell i förändring forskningsrapport 2001:1.

Employment
2007-, Researcher, Uppsala University

2005-2007, Researcher 15-50 % Uppsala University
2004-2007, Researcher The National Institute for Working Life
2004-2005, Teacher 20 % Uppsala University
2001-2003, Teacher Uppsala University 20 %
2001-2003, PhD student Uppsala University 80%
1998-2000, PhD student Uppsala University

Project management
2010- Project leader Old Credits. The development of pawn-broking in Sweden in relation to the development of other systems of credit, regulations and the emerging welfare state 1850-1950, 3-year research project financed by the Swedish Research Council and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation

2010-, Project leader The European industrial citizen- he or she? The emerging European industrial relations regime from a gender perspective, The forgotten consumption, 2-year research project financed by FAS

2008-, Coordinator The Ekonomikum cooperation project, aiming at the integration of education and research

2005-2009 Project leader The forgotten consumption, 3-year research project financed by the Swedish Research Council
2002-2004, Coordinator The Challenge of Industrial Restructuring, AMS Work Life and EU Enlargement

Appointments (selected)

2010-2011 Dep. Chair of Svenska Historiska Föreningen

2010- Member of the Committee for postgraduate education, Department of Economic History

2008-2011, Svenska Historiska Föreningen, board member

2007-2010, Member of board, Department of Economic History

2004-2007, Member of board, Work and integration, National Institute for Working Life

2001, Vice president of the Swedish National Council for the Renewal of Higher education

2001, Chair Eurodoc 2001

2000/01, Member of department board Dep. of Economic History

1999-2000, Member of the Swedish National Council for the Renewal of Higher education

1999-2001, President Sveriges Doktorander (National organisation of Swedish PhD-students)

1998-1999, Member of the University Library Board of Uppsala University

1996-1999, Member of the Board of the National Agency for Services to Universities and University Colleges

1994, 1996, Member of the election committee for vice chancellor of Uppsala University

1994/1995, Member of the University Board, Uppsala University

1994/95, President Uppsala student Union

1993, Curator Curatorum (president of the student nations of Uppsala university)

Referee
Referee for Economic and Industrial Democracy and Scandinavian Economic History Review

International expert
2006, Industrial relations report to the Australian government

Conferences (selected)

2010

IREC 2010 (Industrial Relations in Europe Conference), Oslo 8-10 September

2008

IREC 2008 (Industrial Relations in Europe Conference), Greenwich 22-25 June

European Social Science History Conference, Lissabon 26 February-1 March

2007

IIRA (International Industrial Relations Association) Europe 2007, Manchester 3-6 September

National Trade Unions and European Integration, Bochum, Germany 6-8 December

2006
IREC (Industrial Relations in Europe Conference), Ljubljana 31 August- 2 September
Dares Paris 30 June
Session organiser with Jenny Andersson European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam 22-25 March
The 8th Annual SNEE European integration conference, Mölle 16-19 May
2005
Arbetsmarknaden som process: utveckling och reglering, Ystad 9-10 May
Svenska historikermötet 21-24 May
2004
European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops - Uppsala 13-18 April

Teaching
I have a wide experience of teaching economic history and have further education in university pedagogy in Sweden as well as abroad.