Search for dissertations about: "Legal history"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 64 swedish dissertations containing the words Legal history.

  2. 16. The Negotiable Child : The ILO Child Labour Campaign 1919-1973

    Author : Marianne Dahlén; Rolf Nygren; Mats Kumlien; Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark; Per Nilsén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legal history; child labour; childhood history; childhood studies; labour law; children s rights; children and work; minimum age; International Labour Organisation; international labour law; ILO minimum age campaign; ILO; Rättshistoria; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK; Rättshistoria; Legal History and Sociology of Law;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the Conventions and Recommendations to regulate the minimum age for admission to employment between the years 1919 and 1973 – the ILO minimum age campaign. The adoption process has been studied in its chronological and historical context. READ MORE

  4. 17. The State, Parliamentary Legislation and Economic Policy during the Structural Transformation of British Economy, 1700-1850

    Author : Emrah Gülsunar; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political institutions; parliament; state; economic policy; structural transformation; economic growth; Britain;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the reaction of political institutions to the structural transformation of the British economy from 1700 to 1850. The majority of the literature on the relationship between institutions and economic growth conceptualises the political institutions as a precondition to modern economic growth in the British context. READ MORE

  5. 18. The Swedish Abortion Pill : Co-Producing Medical Abortion and Values, ca. 1965–1992

    Author : Morag Ramsey; Solveig Jülich; Francis Lee; Jean-Paul Gaudillière; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Medical abortion; abortion pill; history of medicine; reproduction; reproductive technologies; feminist STS; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : Abortion pills have had a large impact. Since their introduction to national markets in the 1990s, scholars have examined how abortion pills have changed medical practices, illegal abortion, and reproductive activism. What has gone unstudied, however, has been the development and the history of abortion pills. READ MORE

  6. 19. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past

    Author : Marie-Louise Holm; Margrit Shildrick; Jens Rydström; Ailbhe Smyth; Ellen Feder; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intersex; trans; autobiography; history; embodiment; selfhood; archives; Denmark; medico-legal contexts; psychiatry; rearticulation; liveability; lived experience; ethics; queer theory; postmodern; dialogical narrative analysis; micro-genealogical analysis; Danish Ministry of Justice; Danish Medico-Legal Council; intersex; trans; självbiografi; historia; förkroppsligande; subjektivitet; arkiv; Danmark; medicinsk-etiska sammanhang; psykiatri; omartikulation; levbarhet; livshistorier; etik; queerteori; postmodern; dialogisk berättande analys; mikrogenealogisk analys; Danska justitiedepartementet; Danska Medicinsk-etiska rådet;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. READ MORE

  7. 20. Control and Rent-Seeking: The Role of the State in the Thai Cassava Industry

    Author : Somboon Siriprachai; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; Cassava; The Thai State; Transaction Costs; Rent-Seeking; New Institutional Economics; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : What we can conclude from this study is that the state and the market are not perfect substitutes in allocating resources and sustaining economic development separately. The case of the Thai cassava industry seems to suggest that the Thai state is not benevolent, but predatory in nature. READ MORE