Sökning: "post office"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden post office.

  1. 1. Uniformella förhandlingar : Hierarkier och genusrelationer i Postens kläder 1636-2008

    Författare :Marianne Larsson; Birgitta Svensson; Lisa Öberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; civilian uniform; steering mechanisms; hierarchy; classification; gender; identity; masculinity; negotiations; disciplinary power; cultural history; clothes; Post Office; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The postal uniform represents a state authority while simultaneously clothing the body of an individual. Via discussions about breakpoints, events, and negotiations, the study highlights cultural and social patterns in civilian uniform practice. A basic theme is how society classifies and hierarchizes people, above all, masculinity, via uniform. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Män i staten : stationskarlar och brevbärare i statens tjänst, 1897-1937

    Författare :Lars Kvarnström; Tord Strömberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Identity; state employer; railway; post office; bureaucratization; patriarchalism; corporativism; trade union strategy; professional strategy; political strategy; gender; brotherhood; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The employer, the state, long had the right to unilaterally set wages and determine working conditions. The goverment employees lacked the right to negotiate and sign agreements and to strike. This dissertation focuses on government employees, analyzing their identity and the strategies they chose to deal with their relationship to their employer. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Postgång på växlande villkor : det svenska postväsendets organisation under stormaktstiden

    Författare :Magnus Linnarsson; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of Postal service; postal system; post office; mail; transaction costs; political transaction costs; early modern history; communication history; organizational history; organizations; Swedish history; administrative history.;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the Swedish postal service, focusing on its organization from approximately 1600 to 1720. The purpose of the study is to explain why the Swedish state, at different points of time, chose one form of postal organization over another. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Posten måste fram : en pedagogikhistorisk studie av rekrytering till och utbildning i svenska postverket årtiondena omkring sekelskiftet 1900

    Författare :Eric Engström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  7. 5. Post- och järnvägsstationers namn i Götaland 1860-1940 : Namngivning i spänningsfältet mellan allmänna och enskilda intressen : name-giving and the tension between public and private interests

    Författare :Eberhard Löfvendahl; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Sub-post offices; railway stations; place-names; name sources; parish names; farms; villages; large estates; industrial communities; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : Up to the middle of the 19th century the distribution of mail, public as well as private, was, to a large extent, a duty imposed on farmers. Demands from farmers to be relieved of this duty resulted in the Government giving the Post Office authority to set up post offices of a new, relatively simple kind (poststationer, or sub-post offices). LÄS MER