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Breaking Way – Making Difference? : Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960
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Gender equality through full employment : an intersectional analysis of the special labour market initiatives of BRYT and RUT in Sweden
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Lokala arbetsmarknadsstrategier, globala migrationsrorelser och statlig styrning i norrlandsk glesbygd
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Women’s wartime work is a well-known phenomenon in belligerent countries. But what happened in a neutral country like Sweden? With the outbreak of the Second World War, Sweden was put in a state of ...
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This article focuses on the seamstresses at Algots in their struggle for their jobs at Algots Nord textile industries in rural localizations in the Swedish north (West Bothnia) in 1972. The textile company Algots Nord (a subsidiary to... more
This article focuses on the seamstresses at Algots in their struggle for their jobs at Algots Nord textile industries in rural localizations in the Swedish north (West Bothnia) in 1972. The textile company Algots Nord (a subsidiary to Algot Johansson AB) had factories in Skellefteå, Norsjö, and Lycksele. This localization implied labor market participation among women who had not previously held paid employment. After just a few years, bankruptcy was announced, and all three northern factories had to close. The downturn, followed by protests and demonstrations, were at center of societal debates. A solidarity movement comprising loosely organized individual and collective initiatives was formed. The purpose of this article is to study the writing of the history of the seamstresses at Algots and show its symbolic position in relation to the women’s movement. I want to make visible local stories about experiences of power and set them against the collective memory of the feminist move...
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Lokala arbetsmarknadsstrategier, globala migrationsrorelser och statlig styrning i norrlandsk glesbygd
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The second volume of the Report series of the Swedish Association for Women's and Gender Historians is a result of the XI Nordic Woman’s and Gender History Conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in ...
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The city of Kiruna in Northern Sweden was founded by the LKAB Company 100 years ago around the prosperous mine. Today, the continued expansion of the mine has led to the risk of major ground collap ...
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Artikeln presenterar den idemassiga bakgrunden till ett pagaende forskningsprojekt om hur den s.k. arbetslinjen uppratthalls i ett lokalt och regionalt perspektiv i Sverige. Ett perspektiv pa forhallandena i Sverige utvecklas genom... more
Artikeln presenterar den idemassiga bakgrunden till ett pagaende forskningsprojekt om hur den s.k. arbetslinjen uppratthalls i ett lokalt och regionalt perspektiv i Sverige. Ett perspektiv pa forhallandena i Sverige utvecklas genom jamforelser med Finland.De overgripande fragestallningarna tar sin utgangspunkt i utvecklingen i narings- och arbetslivet under 1960-talet jamfort med utvecklingen under 1990-talet och i borjan av 2000-talet. Trots att tillvaxten idag bedoms att vara gynnsam, praglas arbetsmarknaden av okande differenser i bagge landerna. Skillnaderna i valfard okar mellan regioner och kommuner.Omarbeting av den nationella regionalpolitiken och anpassningen av utvecklingspraktikerna till principerna i EU:s regionalpolitik har paverkat de institutionella formerna for regional utveckling i saval Finland som Sverige. Den svenska och finska regionalpolitikens anpassning till EU har inneburit en omsvangning fran uppifran-och-ner till riktning nedifran-och-upp, vilket innebar ...
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This article considers colonial rhetoric manifested in representations of early settlement in the mining town of Kiruna in northernmost Sweden. Kiruna was founded more than 100 years ago by the LKAB Company with its centre the prosperous... more
This article considers colonial rhetoric manifested in representations of early settlement in the mining town of Kiruna in northernmost Sweden. Kiruna was founded more than 100 years ago by the LKAB Company with its centre the prosperous mine on Sami land. Continued iron ore mining has made it necessary to relocate the town centre a few kilometres north-east of its original location to ensure the safety of the people. The ongoing process of the town’s transformation due to industrial expansion has given rise to the creation of a memorial park between the town and the mine, in which two historical photographs have been erected on huge concrete blocks. For the Swedish Sami, the indigenous people, the transformation means further exploitation of their reindeer grazing lands and forced adaption to industrial expansion. The historical photographs in the memorial park fit into narratives of colonial expansion and exploration that represent the town’s colonial past. Both pictures are conne...
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Debates on gender equality policy in Sweden assume that women’s labor market participation is central to gender equality and should be promoted via special initiatives and programs. This paper examines how gender equality discourses have... more
Debates on gender equality policy in Sweden assume that women’s labor market participation is central to gender equality and should be promoted via special initiatives and programs. This paper examines how gender equality discourses have changed over time, analyzing Swedish state labor market policy in the 1980s and 1990s, special labor market initiatives to eliminate gender segregation and encourage nontraditional gendered work choices, and contemporary state subsidies for paid domestic work (i.e., tax deduction for domestic services). Critically interpreting these reforms reveals consistencies and continuities in how labor market participation is viewed as the key promoter of gender equality, revealing transformations in how gender equality is understood and constructed. A transition is discernible from state-funded programs and reforms to governmental agencies/authorities and state subsidies to promote enterprise and the growth of specific labor market sectors.
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Gender equality through full employment : an intersectional analysis of the special labour market initiatives of BRYT and RUT in Sweden
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Breaking Way – Making Difference? : Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960
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Integration to segregation : activating women workers in 1960s Swedish labour market programmes, from centre to periphery
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Talking to Mrs. Housewife : the 1960s debates on the integration of married women into the Swedish labour market
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Att skapa politik for en ny tingens ordning : aktivering, lokalisering och segregering i 1960-talets AMS-politik
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Women’s wartime work is a well-known phenomenon in belligerent countries. But what happened in a neutral country like Sweden? With the outbreak of the Second World War, Sweden was put in a state of ...