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  1. 1. Images, Motives, and Challenges for Western Health Workers in Humanitarian Aid

    Författare :Magdalena Bjerneld; Gunilla Lindmark; Beth Maina Ahlberg; Lars Dahlgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; humanitarian action; human resource management; relief workers; aid workers; volunteers; images; motives; qualitative research; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden; Medicin; Medicine;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents how humanitarian aid workers were attracted, motivated, recruited, and prepared for fieldwork, and how they reported their work experience directly from the field and when they returned home. Data were derived from interviews with experienced aid workers, focus group discussions with presumptive aid workers, analysis of letters from aid workers in the field on MSFs homepages in Europe, and from interviews with recruitment officers at some of the main humanitarian organisations. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Essays on Public Finance : Retirement Behavior and Disaster Relief

    Författare :Thomas Eisensee; Fabrizio Zilibotti; Kjetil Storesletten; Xavier Mateos-Planas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Computable General Equilibrium; Retirement; Fiscal Policy; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Mass Media; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on Public Finance.“News Droughts, News Floods and U.S. Disaster Relief” studies the mass media's influence on the U. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Retorik och praktik. : en studie av Gestriklands hemslöjdsförening 1912-1930

    Författare :Rose Eriksson; Margareta Nockert; Cecilia Candreus; Bo Lönnqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :handicraft; craft-workers; womens history; textiles; embroidery; social relief organisation; Hemslöjd; slöjdare; kvinnohistoria; näversöm; pinnspets; textil; broderi; Textile Studies; Textilvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this dissertation, Rhetoric and Practice: A Study of the Handicraft Society of Gestrikland 1912-1930, has been to investigate how the rhetoric of the Society – in its early years, as well in the subsequent writings which relate the Society’s history – compares to its actual practices, and to undertake a critical review of the meaning and practical application of the Society’s official slogans. One area of focus is the way Gestrikland’s Handicraft society employed the motto of “helping people to help themselves” – the idea, that is to say, of generating income for the poor. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Arbetslös och medellös : en studie av beredskapsarbetare i Stockholm = [No job, no means] : [on relief workers in Stockholm]

    Författare :Sven Trygged; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Beredskapsarbete: Sverige; Beredskapsarbeten-- Sverige; Arbetslöshet-- Sverige -- 1990-talet;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER