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Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the word working-class.

  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. Ardent propaganda : miner's novels and class conflict, 1929-1939

    Author : David Bell; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; working-class; miners; roman à thèse; ideology; genre; context; communication;

    Abstract : This study of the contribution of working-class fiction to the debate on class conflict in Britain is based on four novels written by two ex-miners between 1929 and 1939: The Gate of a Strange Field (1929) and Last Cage Down (1935), by Harold Heslop, and Cwmardy (1937) and We Live (1939), by Lewis Jones. These novels represent, in work­ing-class fiction, a unique combination of an archetypal working-class occupation, min­ing, with central features of the 1930s cultural discourse, the role of political ideology in literature. READ MORE

  5. 3. When Belongings Secure Credit… : Pawning and Pawners in Interwar Borås

    Author : Tony Kenttä; Sofia Murhem; Göran Ulväng; Dan Bäcklund; Mats Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pawning; Pawners; Pawnshops; Credit; Consumption Credit; Debt; Working class; Workers; Life Cycle; Gender; Borås; interwar; Pantsättning; Pantlån; Pantbanker; Kredit; Konsumtionskrediter; Skuld; Arbetarklass; Arbetare; Livscykel; Genus; Borås; mellankrigstiden; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with pawning primarily from the perspective of the pawners. It utilises two samples from the ledgers of a municipal pawnshop in Borås in western Sweden, from 1922/23 and 1932/33. Its aim is to deal with the relation between the material and financial side of pawning as well as the causes behind pawning. READ MORE

  6. 4. The capital crisis and labour : perspectives on the dynamics of working-class consciousness in Canada

    Author : Paul Willox; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi;

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  7. 5. Pawning in Everyday Life : An exploratory study of pawning at Borås Pawnshop 1922/23

    Author : Tony Kenttä; Sofia Murhem; Göran Ulväng; Anders Perlinge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pawning; Pawn loans; Pawnshops; credit; consumption credits; social history; economic history; working class history; Panta; pantlån; pantbank; kredit; konsumtionskrediter; socialhistoria; ekonomisk historia; arbetarklasshistoria; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History; Historia; History;

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