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1. Ny organisation, ny teknik - nya genusrelationer? : En studie av omförhandling av genuskontrakt på två industriarbetsplatser
Sammanfattning : In Sweden extensive policies for gender equality have emerged over the last ten years. This PhD dissertation analyzes re-negotiated gender relations in two Swedish industrial settings, an electronics firm and an engineering firm. LÄS MER
2. I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860 : Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically as a gendered, contracted position with both economic and moral dimensions attached to them. LÄS MER
3. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. LÄS MER
4. På väg mot jämställda arbetsresor? : Vardagens mobilitet i förändring och förhandling
Sammanfattning : In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match labour supply to the qualifications of the population. LÄS MER
5. Gender, health, the decisions we make and the actions we take
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises of four self-contained papers that use both experimental and applied micro-econometric methods to explore different aspects of gender, health, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. In the first paper we investigate changes in psychiatric diagnoses and their income-related inequalities over time in Sweden and attempt to disentangle the development by decomposing changes over time in terms of population-level changes in education and migration background. LÄS MER