Search for dissertations about: "immigrant radicalism"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words immigrant radicalism.

  2. 1. Weaving the ethnic fabric : social networks among Swedish-American radicals in Chicago 1890-1940

    Author : Per Nordahl; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnicity; class; labor movement; immigrant radicalism; social networks; international migration; Svenskamerikaner; historia; Förenta Staterna; Chicago; 1890-1940; Arbetarrörelsen;

    Abstract : The present dissertation deals with how a segment of the Swedish immigrant group mobilized to be included in American society. Three Swedish-American working class organizations have been studied as to how they interacted to promote their interests in Chicago and the Lake View district during the first decades of this century. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. Iranians in Sweden : economic, cultural and social integration

    Author : Hassan Hosseini-Kaladjahi; Matti Similä; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic integration; discrimination; segmentation; cultural distance; cultural integration acculturation ; cognitive acculturation; normative acculturation; social integration; association; counterculture; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This study explores three dimensions in the integration of Iranian immigrants in Sweden: economic, cultural and social. To test the generalisability of the ideas presented, and to place them in a wider framework the integration of Iranians has been compared with those of three other minorities: Chileans, Poles, and Finns. READ MORE