Space reserved for being serious is hard to come by in a modern society,
whose chief model of a public space is the mega-store
(which may also be an airport or museum)

Susan Sontag

I hold an MA in history and philosophy and a PhD in history from University of Copenhagen. My PhD was about industrial work and modernity in the Danish textile industry 1895-1940. It can be downloaded from publications.

My place of work is Museums of Elsinore, where I am especially responsible for working with the Shipyardmuseum. My complete CV can be found here.

Presently

In 2015 I’m primarily spending time on a personal research project, with the working title “Between Denmark and Detroit”. My aim is to write the history of Ford Motors Company’s car-plant in Copenhagen 1919-1966, with a special emphasis on industrial relations and the meeting between Fordism and the Danish labour market.

I have published an article on these issues in Labor History.

Before

My main research has been in labour history and the history of industrial work life. I have also written a bit about museology, especially in relation to these issues.

One of my publications are Arbejdernes historie i Danmark 1800-2000 (A history of labour in Denmark 1800-2000), which I have co-written with Søren Kolstrup and Anette E. Hansen. I have also written two contributions to the international anthology: The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. The rest of my publications figure in my list of publications.

For several years, I had the pleasure of being chairman of the Danish Society for Research in the History of the Labour Movement.

Later, I was president of the national Year of Industrial Culture 2007, a nationwide initiative in which a large number of museums, institutions and associations combined to tell the cultural history of industrial society.

Other sites

You may also find information about my work at these places:

• academia-edu: if you are interested in my area of research, I welcome you to follow me there. In this way you will be notified about new publications etc.
• PURE: this is the official register of researchers by the Ministry of Culture

 My ORCID-id: orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-2534

If you want to contact me in work-related matters, please write to: lachr@helsingor.dk

…the small print

Even though many of the texts and comments on this web site have been written as part of my professional work, this is a personal web site. The only one responsible for the content is me.