Sökning: "care-work"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 57 avhandlingar innehållade ordet care-work.
21. Municipal care for older people : experiences narrated by caregivers and relatives
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22. Femininity at Work : Gender, Labour, and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital
Sammanfattning : Gender scholarship has identified how paid care work reproduces male dominance and reinforces women’s subordination, but also how labour and workplaces provide a critical space for women through the development of new forms of identity and struggle. In this ethnographic study of Swedish nurses’ work, the concept of normative femininity is used in order to explore gender, labour, and changing relations of power in the context of the neoliberal transformation of the Swedish welfare state. LÄS MER
23. Den tillfälliga husmodern : Hemvårdarinnekåren i Sverige 1940-1960
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the history of the Swedish public home help service. The public provision of home help is taken as an empirical example of the state’s relationship with the private sphere. Housework and care work are discussed as political issues and as the objects of a professionalization project. LÄS MER
24. Elusive Relations : A Phenomenology of Interpersonal Understanding in Social Work
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to explore how phenomenological philosophy may contribute to the conception of interpersonal understanding in the context of social work practice. The thesis consists of an extended introduction and four original papers, investigating modalities of interpersonal understanding in relation to three different subjects, namely empathy, stigmatization, and peer-support. LÄS MER
25. Mind the Gap : Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality
Sammanfattning : The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. LÄS MER