Search for dissertations about: "labor movement"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words labor movement.

  2. 1. Manufacturing Consensus : The Making of the Swedish Reformist Working Class

    Author : Jenny Jansson; PerOla Öberg; Jörgen Hermansson; Jonas Hinnfors; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trade union movement; class formation; labor movement; identity; social democracy; organizational identity; identity entrepreneurs; labor leaders; popular education; LO; ABF; Sigfrid Hansson; Sweden; strategic action;

    Abstract : The 1910s were a precarious time for the labor movement. The Russian Revolution in 1917 sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations spread all over Europe. These organizations challenged existing notions of the “worker,” causing an identity crisis in class organizations. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. The Fate of Organized Labor : Explaining Unionization, Wage Inequality, and Strikes across Time and Space

    Author : Sven Oskarsson; Torsten Svensson; Jörgen Hermansson; Karl Ove Moene; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The point of departure for this thesis is the divergent fate of organized labor during the last decades in the Western world. Given what we know about actual trends, how are we to explain the variation in the strength of organized labor across time and space? The thesis consists of four self-contained essays. READ MORE

  6. 4. EXPANDED CHOREOGRAPHY : Shifting the agency of movement in The Artificial Nature Project and 69 positions

    Author : Ingvartsen Mette; Maria Lind; Bojana Cvejic; Adrian Heathfield; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; material agency; vibrant matter; sensorial participation; sensorial problems; immersive stage environments; color perception; nonhuman choreography; actants; the Anthropocene; non-subjective performativity; ecology; catastrophe; technological extensions of the body; the triple image; animate inanimate; expression; action; production of affect; evaporation; dissolution and dispersion; poetics; expanded choreography; Sexuality; sexual liberation; the performance history of the 1960s; protest and politics; ‘language choreography’; orality; storytelling; pornography; affect and economy; expression and liberty; immaterial labor; self-experimentation; dance; ‘soft choreography ; social choreography; Koreografi; Dans; Konstnärlig forskning; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts; material agency; vibrant matter; sensorial participation; sensorial problems; immersive stage environments; color perception; nonhuman choreography; actants; the Anthropocene; non-subjective performativity; ecology; catastrophe; technological extensions of the body; the triple image; animate inanimate; expression; action; production of affect; evaporation; dissolution and dispersion; poetics; expanded choreography; Sexuality; sexual liberation; the performance history of the 1960s; protest and politics; ‘language choreography’; orality; storytelling; pornography; affect and economy; expression and liberty; immaterial labor; self-experimentation; dance; ‘soft choreography ; social choreography;

    Abstract : Through two books and a series of video documentations of live performances Mette Ingvartsen makes choreography into a territory of physical, artistic and social experimentation. The Artificial Nature Series focusses on how relations between human and non-human agency can be explored and reconfigured through choreography. READ MORE

  7. 5. Wages, unemployment and regional differences : empirical studies of the Palestinian labor market

    Author : Ted N. Aranki; Lars Hultkrantz; Aysit Tansel; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Palestinian labor force; closure policy; foreign workers; wage; employment; returns to schooling; omitted variable bias; measurement error; unemployment duration; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays analyzing wages, unemployment and regional differences in the Palestinian labor market. Paper [I] investigates the effects of the Israeli closure policy on Palestinian wage earnings. Closure has a significant impact on the Palestinian labor force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. READ MORE