Search for dissertations about: "Minnesota"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word Minnesota.

  2. 1. Railroading and Labor Migration : Class and Ethnicity in Expanding Capitalism in Northern Minnesote, the 1880s to the mid 1920s

    Author : Jimmy Engren; Lars Olsson; Leslie Page Moch; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Labor Migration; Immigration History; Swedish-America; Svensk-Amerika; Labor History; Minnesota; Welfare Capitalism; Hegemony; Capitalism; ethnic history; railroad; Socialism; community study; ethnic division of labor; Swedish workers; Swedish immigrants; political economy; Anglo-American; immigrant radicalism; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Abstract : In the 1880s, capitalism as a social and economic system integrated new geographic areas of the American continent. The construction of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (D&IR), financed by a group of Philadelphia investors led by Charlemagne Tower and later owned by the US Steel was part of this emerging political economy based on the exploitation of human and material resources. READ MORE

  4. 2. Swedish America, 1914-1932 : studies in ethnicity with emphasis on Illinois and Minnesota

    Author : Sture Lindmark; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia;

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  5. 3. Anglo American Capital, and Immigrant Workers : Swedes and other Immigrant Workers on a Minnesota Railroad 1880-1920

    Author : Jimmy Engren; Lars Olsson; Shelton Stromquist; Sweden Växjö Växjö University; []
    Keywords : labor; ethnic relations; ethnicity; emigration; migration; Swede in the United States; Swedish immigrants; Historia; History;

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  6. 4. The Minnesota model treatment for substance dependence : program evaluation in a Swedish setting

    Author : Maria Bodin; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Minnesota model; Alcoholics Anonymous; program evaluation; outcome predictors; abstinence rates; Sweden; non-problem drinking; private sector; twelve-step treatment.;

    Abstract : The Minnesota model treatment for substance dependence is a group-based psychosocial intervention program that rests on the principles and twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The model was introduced to Sweden in 1983-84, and is currently used as the main treatment method in twenty-five percent of the addiction treatment units in the country. READ MORE

  7. 5. Toward a Multiculturalism for the 21st Century : German and Scandinavian Literary Perspectives, 1990-2005

    Author : Helena Karlsson; Minneapolis University of Minnesota; []
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