Search for dissertations about: "ethnic division of labor"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words ethnic division of labor.

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. Sápmi i förändringens tid : en studie av svenska samers levnadsvillkor under 1900-talet ur ett genus- och etnicitetsperspektiv

   Author : Andrea Amft; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sami history; Sami identity; gender division of labor; marginalization; power relations; dominant - subordinated ethnic groups; ethnic legislation; cultural studies; cultural boundaries;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the changing living conditions for the Sami in Swedish Såpmi (Samiland) throughout the twentieth century with an analysis based on a gender and ethnic perspective.At the turn of the century, the Sami lived as nomadic reindeer herders and were primarily self- sufficient. READ MORE