Sökning: "late capitalism"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden late capitalism.
11. Skogens skördemän : Skogs- och flottningsarbetareförbundets kamp för arbete och kollektivavtal 1918-1927
Sammanfattning : For the Swedish forest workers, both unionization and the breakthrough of collective agreements were late in coming. As a result, the sub-contracting system continued into the 1940’s. The present study attempts to explain this, and to determine why the reformist policy of the Swedish Union of Forest Workers and River Drivers failed. LÄS MER
12. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. LÄS MER
13. Ett fåfängt arbete : Möten med modeller i den svenska modeindustrin
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the working life of fashion models in the Swedish Fashion Industry based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork among a network of female and male models in Stockholm. It charts the development of the modelling business in Sweden and locates it within the changing labour market of late capitalism. LÄS MER
14. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory
Sammanfattning : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. LÄS MER
15. Överflöd och ofullbordan : Essä om det moderna
Sammanfattning : The problem which the present study discusses is modernity. The study interprets modernity’s cultural and anthropological dispositions as historical appearances. Consequently, it is situated at the intersection of cultural sociology and historical anthropology. The aim is to generate insight and understanding rather than a coherent theory. LÄS MER