Search for dissertations about: "Blue collar workers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words Blue collar workers.

2. 1. Job Crafting: Changing and adapting work as one piece of the puzzle for a sustainable working life

   Author : Ellen Jaldestad; Andrea Eriksson; Britt Östlund; Lotta Dellve; Göran Jutengren; Åsa Tjulin; Ulrika von Thiele Schwarz; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; age management; blue-collar workers; extended working life; public healthcare; health-promoting work; job crafting; manufacturing industry; retirement decisions; sense of coherence; system perspective; förlängt arbetsliv; hälso- och sjukvård; hälsofrämjande arbete; job crafting; känsla av sammanhang; pensionsbeslut; systemperspektiv; tillverkningsindustri; verkstadsarbetare; åldersmedvetet ledarskap; Teknik och hälsa; Technology and Health;

   Abstract : Introduction: This thesis focuses on job crafting as one way to increase work-related well-being and enable people to extend their working lives. The studies included were conducted within two different contexts, namely the manufacturing industry and public healthcare. READ MORE

4. 2. Wage formation in a unionized economy

   Author : Eva Uddén-Jondal; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Around 85 percent of all blue-collar workers in Sweden are organized in an all-encompassing union, Landsorganisationen (LO). During the last decade, this fact has given rise to quite lively research on centralized wage formation. READ MORE

5. 3. Shift work and coronary heart disease

   Author : Anders Knutsson; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; CHD; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden;

   Abstract : Previous research on the medical consequences of shift work has mainly been concerned with sleep disorders and gastrointestinal disturbances. Cardiovascular disease has not been clearly implicated. READ MORE

6. 4. Cardiorespiratory fitness, physical workload, and lifestyle-related factors in occupational groups : associations with sickness absence and cardiovascular disease

   Author : Daniel Väisänen; Elin Ekblom Bak; Lena Kallings; Erik Hemmingsson; Ulf Ekelund; Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin Teknik; Medicine Technology;

   Abstract : The main aim of this thesis was to study cardiorespiratory fitness, physical workload, and lifestyle-related factors, with a special emphasis on cardiorespiratory fitness in an occupational context and the associations with cardiovascular disease and sickness absence across a wide range of occupations. A secondary aim was to study trends in cardiorespiratory fitness in different occupational groups over the last decades. READ MORE

7. 5. Möten med marknaden. Tre svenska fackförbunds agerande under perioden 1945-1976

   Author : Carina Gråbacke; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; trade unions; the textile industry; the building industry; the retail sector; encompassing and narrow interests; the politics of productivity; innovation; economic change; structural adjustment; rationalization; competition; regulation; deregulation; bargained economy; free trade; protectionism; labor market policy; public housing corporations; union controlled firms; radicalization; organization costs; opening hour regulation;

   Abstract : This is a study of how trade unions act when they are confronted with the consequences of innovations in their own sector of the economy. The framework in which this is studied, basically consists of Mancur Olson's distinction between encompassing/broad and narrow interest organizations, here represented by the peak organization of the blue-collar workers (LO) and the separate trade unions within LO, respectively. READ MORE