Search for dissertations about: "Relations of Production"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 284 swedish dissertations containing the words Relations of Production.

  2. 1. The Golden Fleece of the Cape : Capitalist expansion and labour relations in the periphery of transnational wool production, c. 1860–1950

    Author : Fredrik Lilja; Jan Lindegren; Jimmy Engren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; capitalist expansion; transnational production; commodity chains; accumulation of capital; labour relations; shepherds; wool farming; fencing; environment; generational division of labour; gendered division of labour; imperialism; capitalism; British Empire; Rosa Luxemburg; South Africa; the Cape; eastern Cape.; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the organisation, character and change of labour relations in expanding capitalist wool farming in the Cape between 1860 and 1950. It is an attempt to analyse labour in wool farming within a transnational framework, based on an expansion of capital from core to periphery of the capitalist world-economy. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Significance of Things : Affective User-Artefact Relations

    Author : Viktor Hiort af Ornäs; Högskolan i Skövde; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; User-centred desig; User experience; Significant things; Significant use; Significant consequences; Technology; Teknik; User Centred Product Design; Användarcentrerad produktdesign;

    Abstract : Products help people act, but also thrill, excite, and elicit fear, joy and anger. Artefacts are a natural part of people’s everyday lives, sometimes associated with values, dreams and aspirations. While traditional user-centred approaches have focused on efficiency and effectiveness of use, injury prevention etc. READ MORE

  5. 3. Ancillary actor relations : The case of EU’s leading defence primes

    Author : Pierre Erik Gunnarsson; Peter Thilenius; Hadjikhani Amjad; Martin Lundmark; Fredrik Tell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ancillary; actor relation; aerospace industry; Aérospatiale; Airbus; BAE; business relations; Dassault; defence acquisition; defence company; defence industry; defence procurement; EADC; EADS; EDA; EDF; EU defence; EU institutions; EU integration; Europeanization; Finmeccanica; IEPG; industrial marketing; Leonardo; SAAB; solutions marketing; strategic industries; project marketing; Thales; Thomson-CSF; OCCAR; Industriell Marknadsföring; försvarsindustri; Försvar; Försvarsindustri;

    Abstract : This longitudinal research project in industrial marketing seeks to understand ancillary actors, specifically what they are, their characteristics, relations and impact on focal relations based on the empirical case of the cross-border relations of EU’s largest defence equipment producing firms (called “primes”). Ancillary actors are approached on four arenas: i) the political setting for EU defence equipment production, ii) the “primes” business relations, e. READ MORE

  6. 4. Political Economy and Social Relations of Cocaine Production in Southern Colombia

    Author : Oscar Jansson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Political economy; Peasant economy; Cocaine production; Relations of Production; AUC; FARC; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE

  7. 5. Angels in Unstable Sociomaterial Relations : Stories of Information Technology

    Author : Pirjo Elovaara; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information Technology IT ; Actor-Network Theory ANT ; Actor-Network Theory and After ANTa ; Feminist technology; Technoscience studies;

    Abstract : I have explored spaces, where negotiations of border transgressions take place and where issues of technology and politics mingle. We meet a diversity of actors in the world of information technology (IT): political texts, people and technology participating in numerous sociomaterial relations. READ MORE