Sökning: "working-class"

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

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Att upprätthålla livet : Om lågavlönade ensamstående mödrars försörjning i Sverige

    Författare :Soheyla Yazdanpanah; Anita Nyberg; Johan Söderberg; Göran Ahrne; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sustenance; low wages; single mothers; care work; gender; working class; middle class; ethnicity; capital; habitus; Iranian-born mothers; Swedish-born mothers; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the experiences of low-paid single mothers in sustaining their families in Sweden in the early 2000. The investigation builds upon interviews with twenty low-paid single mothers living and working in Stockholm. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Mellan massan och Marx : en studie av den politiska kampen inom fackföreningsrörelsen i Hofors 1917-1946

    Författare :Stefan Dalin; Jonny Hjelm; Alf Johansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the local council of the Social Democratic Party; socialists; social democrats; left-wing social democrats; the Labour Movement; working class; Comintern; The Swedish Metal Workers’ Union; The Swedish Trade Union Confederation; radicalism; local trade union environment; 20th century; norms; political culture.; trade union; communists; Hofors; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis concentrates on Hofors and a local trade union environment between 1917 and 1946, where important parts of the trade union’s power were held by parties to the left of the social democrats. The overall aim is to problemize and discuss the issue of what characterised and made possible this deviation from the usual picture of a trade union movement dominated by social democracy. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Drömmen om det goda livet : livskvalitet och matvanor i ett uppväxande industrisamhälle : Stocka sågverk 1870-1980

    Författare :Christina Fjellström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Working-class; food habits; fat; fiber; good life ; life-style; poverty-cycle; process of civilization;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this study, taken from an inter-disciplinary standpoint, is to examine how dietary habits of a population of industrial workers in an agrarian environment have changed during the last hundred years, from a qualitative rather than a quantitative point of view. Of particular interest is to ascertain the values which "the common man" has held regarding his dietary and food habits. LÄS MER

  7. 10. When Belongings Secure Credit… : Pawning and Pawners in Interwar Borås

    Författare :Tony Kenttä; Sofia Murhem; Göran Ulväng; Dan Bäcklund; Mats Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :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;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER