Sökning: "Mechanization"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Mechanization.

  1. 1. Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939

    Författare :Tobias Karlsson; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; severance pay; human capital; internal labour markets; economic history; tobacco industry; state-owned enterprises; the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly; the Swedish Tobacco Workers’ Union; gender; male-breadwinner norm; mechanization; workforce reductions; hours-reductions; layoffs; inter-war period;

    Sammanfattning : Downsizing is a phenomenon that remarkably seldom has been the subject of historical inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Skogsarbetarna och motorsågen : en studie av arbetsliv och teknisk förändring

    Författare :Jonny Hjelm; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Forestry; forest worker; chain saw; mechanization; rationalization; labour history; working life; technical change; cutting operation;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with how workers actively introduced a new technique to their own labour process. More specifically, it is concerned with how Swedish forest workers during the 1950s gradually replaced the manual one-man crosscut saw with the motor-driven saw. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Narratives of governing : rationalization, responsibility and resistance in social work

    Författare :Marcus Lauri; Chris Hudson; Linda Berg; Diana Mulinari; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Welfare; Welfare state; neoliberalism; neoliberal; neo-liberal; neo-liberalism; new public management; NPM; new managerialism; managerialism; public management reform; social work; social services; profession; professional; EBP; evidence-based practice; evidence; knowledge production; paperwork; administration; performance; audit; discipline; sovereign power; self-governing; power; power knowledge; motivational interviewing; MI; individualism; individual responsibility; political; the political; de-politicized; de-politicization; governing; governmentality; governance; gender; feminism; feminist theory; Foucault; Marx; capitalism; standardization; flexibility; budget governing; care; care-work; ethos of care; solidarity; empathy; loyalty; division of labor; proceduralization; instrumentalization; mechanization; manual based; digital; template; templates; de-professionalization; proletarization; proletarianization; Taylorization; transition; transformation; rationalization; rationality; rational; emotions; emotional; affect; alienation; detachment; distance; resistance; counter conduct; Sweden; Swedish model; rhizome; rhizomatic; nomadic; narrative; narratives; discourse; critique; interviews; Välfärd; välfärdsstat; välfärfärdsstaten; nyliberal; nyliberalism; new public management; socialt arbete; socialtjänsten; socialarbetare; svenska modellen; styrning; styrningsmentalitet; kön; genus; EBP; evidensbaserad praktik; evidens; kunskapsproduktion; makt kunskap; administration; pappersarbete; granskning; kontroll; disciplin; självstyrning; motiverande samtal; individualism; individualisering; ansvar; individuellt ansvar; flexibilitet; politik; det politiska; avpolitisering; avprofessionalisering; profession; professioner; professionell; förfrämligande; Sverige; Foucault; Marx; feminism; feministisk teori; kapitalism proletarisering; taylorisering; standardisering; manualbaserad; rationalisering; rationell; emotioner; känslor; avstånd; likgiltighet; narrativ; diskurs; kritik; intervju; intervjuer; kapitalism; den svenska modellen; förändring; transformering; motstånd; mot-makt;

    Sammanfattning : For many years, Sweden has had a reputation for having a comprehensive and women friendly welfare state. However, as in many other European countries during the past few decades, the organization and governing of welfare has undergone profound changes. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Cadmium induced kidney dysfunction in rodents and its relevance to biomonitoring : experimental and environmental findings

    Författare :Per Leffler; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Forestry; forest worker; chain saw; mechanization; rationalization; labour history; working life; technical change; cutting operation;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with how workers actively introduced a new technique to their own labour process. More specifically, it is concerned with how Swedish forest workers during the 1950s gradually replaced the manual one-man crosscut saw with the motor-driven saw. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Om betydelsen av böckers utseende : det svenska förlagsbandets framväxt och etablering under perioden 1840–1914 med särskild hänsyn till dekorerade klotband : en studie av bokbandens formgivning, teknik och relation till frågor om modernitet och materiell kultur

    Författare :Kristina Lundblad; digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap Avdelningen för ABM; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bookbinding; Book Design; Book History; Publishers’ bindings; Publishers’ Cloth; Material Culture; Form; Modernity; Materiality; Mass Individualism; Edition Binding; 19th Century; Book Binding Machines; Industrialization; Title Specific Binding; Binding Practise; Tactility; Haptic Vision; Simmel; Aesthetics and Economy; Aesthetics and Tecnique; Interaction; Book Market; Cultural History; Cloth; Book Trade; The History of the Book; Mechanization; Production of Meaning; Peder Herzog; Blocking Press; Book Case; Book Porduction; Book Production History; Consumer Society; History of Consumer Society; History of Book Design; Ornament; 19th Century Interior Decoration; Reading and the Book; Bookbindings of Bonnier; the Physical Aspects of Books and Reading;

    Sammanfattning : This study traces the history of publishers’ cloth-bindings in Sweden, and places them in relation to the emergence of modernity. The interaction between techno-logy, economics and aesthetics is central to the analysis, in which a sociological approach is combined with per-spectives of book history and material culture studies. LÄS MER