Sökning: "development workers and masculinity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden development workers and masculinity.

  1. 1. Kraftkarlar och knockouts : Kraftsporter, kropp och klass i Sverige 1920–1960

    Författare :Emma Pihl Skoog; Johnny Wijk; Eva Blomberg; Ulrika Holgersson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; power sports; boxing; weightlifting; bodybuilding; class; body; manual work; workerism; masculinity; kraftsporter; boxning; tyngdlyftning; bodybuilding; klass; kropp; kroppsarbete; arbetarism; maskulinitet; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis analyses representations of body and class, and their wider ideological meaning, in Swedish power sports from 1920 to 1960. Boxing and weightlifting – sports dominated by manual workers – are chosen as study objects. The sources used are magazines connected to the power sports, and autobiographies by four prominent athletes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Shifting Gender Dynamics In Multinational Ghanaian Mine Jobs : Narratives on Organizational and Sociocultural Barriers

    Författare :Rufai Kilu; Maria Uden; Mohammed-Amin Sanda; Eira Andersson; John Chandler; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; gender and technology; psychosocial structures; enrolment regimes; organizational barriers; stereotype notions on gender roles; shifting gender dynamics; sustainability; social innovation; multinational Ghanaian mines; Genus och teknik; Gender and Technology;

    Sammanfattning : Gender is one of the central organizing principles around which social and corporate innovation revolves. The multinational Ghanaian mining is dominated by men and masculinity cultures. To gain an adequate understanding of this phenomenon, it is prudent to explore its gendered nature. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Experience and Identity : A Historical Account of Class, Caste, and Gender among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930–2000

    Författare :Anna Lindberg; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cashew factories; cashew workers; experience; identity; effeminization; housewifization; dowry; marriage; breadwinner wages; gender discourses; gender ideologies; trade unions; women; gender; caste; class; Quilon; India; Kerala; Sociology; Sociologi; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Sammanfattning : Since the 1930s female cashew workers have constituted a majority of the registered workers in the South Indian State of Kerala and today number some 200,000. This group challenged the stereotypical view of Third World women because they were organized into unions, worked in the formal sector, and were literate. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Fostrande försörjning : fattigvård, filantropi och genus i fabriksstaden Norrköping 1872-1914

    Författare :Birgitta Plymoth; Britt Liljewall; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Poor relief; philanthropy; gender; middle class; family norms; female workers; working mothers; social policy; factory town; Norrköping; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how the middle class in the factory town Norrköping dealt with the poverty of the working class through the public Poor Relief Board, philanthropy and the Association of Factory Owners, 1872–1914. This issue was known as “the social question” both nationally and internationally. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Bad Guys, Good Life : An Ethnography of Morality and Change in Kisekka Market (Kampala, Uganda)

    Författare :Anna Baral; Sverker Finnström; Filip De Boeck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Morality; Ethics; Urban planning; Informality; Bayaaye; Everyday life; Agency; Masculinity; Uganda; Buganda; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of almost three years, this dissertation scrutinizes the everyday lives of informal workers selling auto parts in Kisekka Market, central Kampala. Its ambition is to understand how the workers navigated a highly moralized environment in today’s Uganda, where the supposed moral deterioration of society is passionately discussed in public and in private. LÄS MER