Sökning: "labour market transformations"

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  1. 1. Befolkning, samhälle och förändring : Dynamik i Halmstad under fyra decennier

    Författare :Helena Eriksson; Anna-Lisa Lindén; Bernd Hofmaier; Bengt Furåker; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; change; locality; community; reflexivity; innovation; tradition; demography; population; labour market; Sociology; Sociologi; labour market; change; locality; community; reflexivity; innovation; tradition; population; demography;

    Sammanfattning : Changes in society are often discussed on an aggregated level and it is argued that society is changing from a modern industrial society to a post-industrial society. Through studying changes on a local level it is possible to study the complexity and variations of the general and aggregated theories of societal changes, and place changes in a context of time and place. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Systemmänniskan : En studie om människan, automationen och det senmoderna förnuftet

    Författare :Daniel Bodén; Ella Johansson; Hansen Kjell; Fredrik Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; automation; culture; technology; social consciousness; reification; material-ity; modernity; late modernity; labour; production; consumption; service; division of labour; automation; kultur; teknik; socialt medvetande; reifikation; materialitet; modernitet; senmodernitet; arbete; service; arbetsdelning; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : How did the conformist “organization man” of modern welfare society turn into the restless and flexible market-rational individualist of late-modernity? And what role did technology play in this transformation? Drawing from inquiries like these, this doctoral thesis deals with topics such as technology, culture, and the production of social consciousness. The aim of the study is to elucidate the historical emergence of late-modern reason, visible in the socio-material process of automation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Brussels : a reflexive world city

    Författare :Camilla Elmhorn; Peter Taylor; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; world city cities; global city cities; Brussels; global-local interplay; economic reflexivity; neo-Marshallian nodes; agglomeration economies; European cities; economic restructuring; labour market transformations; informal economy; spatial segregation; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses the consequences of seemingly placeless processes like the European integration and the increasing economic globalisation on Brussels and the people living there. The study shows that Brussels has become one of our time's most important international political capitals and a leading business node in Europe. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ageing in a changing society : Elderly men and women in urban Sweden 1830-1930

    Författare :Ann-Kristin Högman; Lars-Göran Tedebrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; demography; family; gender; labour force participation; living arrangements; modernisation; Norrköping; old age; poor relief; Stockholm; Sundsvall; Older people and ageing; Äldre och åldrande; Social welfare social pedagogics; Social omsorg socialpedagogik; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; caring sciences in social sciences; omvårdnadsforskning med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the living conditions of aged men and women. By studying labour force participation, savings and pensions, the role of the family, and the extent of dependency of aged men and women from a gender and class perspective, continuities and changes between pre-industrial and industrial times are examined. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Stormarknadens nya maktordningar : Från kassörskor och butikschefer till (o)demokratiska arbetslag

    Författare :Elin Kvist; Nora Räthzel; Lena Abrahamsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; work; working life; class relations; feminism; employment; flexibility; work; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The empirical basis of this thesis is made up of interviews with men and women working at a supermarket, both with and without managerial responsibilities. The supermarket is an example of a working place where they use modern information technologies, and where there have been reorganisations pointing towards more flexibility, lesser hierarchies and higher autonomy for the workers. LÄS MER