
Maiju Wuokko, PhD, currently works as University Reseacher at the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland. She specializes in business and political history, business-politics links, business and employers’ associations, and industrial relations.
Key publications:
Kärrylä, Ilkka, Strang, Johan & Wuokko, Maiju (forthcoming, 2023) “Fragments of libertarianism and neoliberal ascendancy: Ideological features and limitations of the liberal breakthrough in Finland”, special issue in Journal of Political Ideologies edited by Jenny Andersson and Niklas Olsen (will be OA).
Wuokko, M., Fellman, S., & Kärrylä, I. (2022). ”Victory through defence: Employers’ policy preferences and success in the industrial democracy reform process in Finland, 1960s–1970s”. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(4), 1842–1866. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X211032271
Wuokko, Maiju (2021). “The curious compatibility of consensus, corporatism, and neoliberalism: The Finnish business community and the retasking of a corporatist welfare state.” Business History, 63(4), 668-685 DOI:10.1080/00076791.2019.1598379 (2019): 1–19
Wuokko, Maiju. Markkinatalouden etujoukot: Elinkeinoelämän valtuuskunta, Teollisuuden keskusliitto ja liike-elämän poliittinen toiminta 1970–1980-lukujen Suomessa [The Vanguard of the Market Economy: The political activity of Finnish business in the 1970s and 1980s]. Monograph dissertation, University of Helsinki. Helsinki: Unigrafia, 2016. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/166447
Wuokko, Maiju. “Business in the battle of ideas, 1945–1991: conclusions from the Finnish case.” Scandinavian Economic History Review 65, no. 3 (2017): 279–293.
Wuokko, Maiju. “Layers of Disunity: The Presidential Politics of Finnish business, 1981–1982.” Scandinavian Journal of History 38, no. 5 (2013): 612–635.
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