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Industrial Heritage Around the Baltic Sea
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers on both sides of the Baltic Sea, who are interested in industrial transition, social landscapes and industrial heritage. It is also a report from a PhD-education program with young researchers and teachers coming together twice a year for workshops. One purpose of this collaboration was to carry out studies regarding how the industrial heritage has been used in the renewal of cities and landscapes of industry in the process of transformation in the former Soviet republics and in the Nordic welfare countries. Another aim was to develop theoretical and methodological instruments in order to understand and analyse the industrial transition and transformation of society in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
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- Söderberg, Gabriel
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Constructing Invisible Hands : Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880–2000
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Dominant market theories analyze markets as ahistorical entities without the need for professional groups that manage crucial functions within them. This thesis, in contrast, approaches markets as historical systems that develop over time and that can be constituted in many different ways because of different historical trajectories. Different professional groups managing market routines, further, are seen as a crucial part of markets. Two concepts are introduced: “market architecture”, the specific way a market is constituted at a given time; and “market technocrats”, the seemingly disinterested third party functionaries that manage routines in markets and advocate changes in market architecture. The thesis argues that market technocrats exist because of uncertainty and lack of trust between market actors, and that they are an important part of how market architectures develop over time. It presents an analytical framework for understanding market technocrats and how they interact with and develop markets. Four different aspects of market technocrats are explored: the process of establishing market technocrats in market routines; the capture of the authority of market technocrats by other market actors; the expansionistic behavior of market technocrats; and the way changes in economic theory, as an important part of how economists with technocratic authority advocate market change, can help to explain changes in markets. These aspects are explored through four empirical papers: The Market Technocracy of Import Substitution: The Role of Asymmetric Information and The Swedish Seed Association 1880–1935; Limits of Market Technocracy: Swedish Fertilizer Research and the Crisis of Objectivity 1945–1960; Central Banks, and the Pursuit of Influence, Prestige, and Legitimacy: The Creation of the Nobel Memorial Prize; and From Market Engineering to Institutional Engineering: Reform Economics in Sweden 1950–2000. The results of the papers form the basis of a hypothetical narrative of how the role of market technocrats has changed during the 20th century. This provides a roadmap for further research in the development of markets and the role of market technocrats.
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- Bengtsson, Berit, 1960-
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Kampen mot § 23 : Facklig makt vid anställning och avsked i Sverige före 1940
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to use a power perspective to describe the workers’ struggle for co-determination in the Swedish labour market during the period 1890–1939. The study explores how trade unions in general attempted to limit article 23, which asserted employers’ control over hiring and dismissal. At the same time the study clarifies differences in union power between various groups of workers. The prevalent historical view regarding the distribution of power in the labour market is thus questioned.The study shows that workers were not powerless before the Saltsjöbaden agreement in 1938. In certain areas workers, through their unions, already at the beginning of the 20th century had fairly good possibilities of influencing both hiring and dismissal. Collective agreements that were entered into before the defeat of the workers in the great conflict in the Swedish labour market in 1909, as well as collective agreements signed during the 1920s and 1930s, can make both the Saltsjöbaden agreement and present-day regulations look “hostile to workers”. In collective agreements workers achieved considerable limitations of employers’ arbitrary freedom to hire and dismiss workers. Certain unions could control their labour market efficiently by means of a labour exchange of their own. The development, however, varied over time and between different trade unions. Business cycles generally influenced how much power unions could exert. Access to power resources and other conditions varied between different workers’ groups. While some attained considerable power over hiring and dismissal, others had no possibilities of taking part in decision-making.
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- Isacson, Maths, 1948-
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Industriminnen som kulturarv : Förändringar i synen på industrins lämningar i Sverige
- 2009
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Ingår i: Den jyske historiker. - Århus : Historiska institutionen, Aarhus Universitet. - 0109-9280 .- 1902-472X. ; :121-122, s. 109-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is, firstly, to confirm when and why the industrial heritage in Sweden got the status as cultural heritage, and,secondly, what this has implied for the idea of what is possible to include in the industrial heritage.
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- Lagerqvist, Christopher, 1976-
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Kvarboende vid vägs ände : Människors försörjning i det inre av södra Norrland under svensk efterkrigstid
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this dissertation the question of why people want to stay in the county-side has been analysed from an economic-historic perspective. The specific research question has been: Using which formal economic means of sustenance could those who remained in Ängersjö parish ensure their survival in the years 1950 to 1990? A number of different types of sources have been used, including income tax registers, data on migration, agricultural statistics, parish registers, interviews, and printed public statistics. The population of Ängersjö parish decreased through the entire period of investigation. In the early 1950s the population pyramid in Ängersjö resembled Sweden’s quite considerably. After this point, the tendencies towards depopulation grew stronger. By the early 1990s, the population had returned to the levels of the early 1800s, i.e. before the forest became valuable. This time, however, the proportion of older inhabitants was much larger. Most of the remaining households supported themselves through wage labour in the forestry sector, which essentially was a male preoccupation. At the margin, supplementary incomes, such as the renting of cottages and capital revenues, could add to household earnings, and contributions by women probably played an important part in that context. In addition, informal economic activities, such as berry-picking and the exchange of labour, could expand the means of support by a maximum of 20 percent. In spite of all these efforts, most of the remaining households earned less than an average Swedish industrial worker. The income differences could to some degree be compensated by lower housing and living costs, but many households probably enjoyed a lower material standard of living. Demonstrably, most of the remaining inhabitants of Ängersjö were willing to pay the economic price associated with the “feelings of freedom” or the upkeep of their ancestral home of which many inhabitants spoke.
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- Samuelsson, Johan, 1968-
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Kommunen gör historia : Museer, identitet och berättelser i Eskilstuna 1959-2000
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall purpose of the thesis is to examine the shaping of the identity of the municipality. One empirical question raised in the dissertation is how the municipal museum has been established as a part of the municipal administration. This is done through an empirical study of the municipality of Eskilstuna in the period 1959-2000 and its official historical narration. I have analyzed four cases where historical narration was produced, mainly by the city museum. These cases are: a city Jubilee in 1959, the building of a city museum in 1979, a city exhibition in 2000 and the documentary work of the museums in relation to contemporary society (Samdok). The historical narration of the municipality over time has some perspectives in common; it is mainly a genetical narration where the municipality’s character is transformation and development. Even if some themes change over time, this has been one basic element. The place that is in focus is also constant, the industrial sections of Eskilstuna. This means that a rather large area is excluded in the narrative. However it is important to emphasize one thing here, that the rural areas are mainly represented by prehistoric times up to the Middle Ages. The manifestation of identity is therefore problematic. The city, however, is associated with symbols of transformation, modernity and development. But even if the main perspective in the narrative is that of transformation, there is a more antiquarian or traditional part as well. Here the museum building plays an important part; the museum has been built up in what can be called the historical industrial milieu. There is one more aspect of the identity of the municipality that must be emphasized here. In many ways, the municipality has used symbols and epochs from national history, for example the Middle Ages, national saints, industrialization etc. In this way the municipality is constructed as a part of something typically Swedish. Even if there were permanent features in the narration, change and new perspectives were also included, such as immigrants, women and pop culture.
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- Isacson, Maths, 1948-
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Arbetets skiftande villkor
- 2008
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Ingår i: Industriland. - Stockholm : Premiss. - 9789185343584 ; , s. 51-81
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bokens 12 författare belyser den högindustriella epoken (1930-1980-tal) ur ett antal kritiska perspektiv. I detta kapitel analyseras omfattningen, tempot och drivkrafterna bakom arbetets förändring. Huvudfrågan är om det överhuvudtaget hade varit möjligt att åstadkomma den exceptionella ekonomiska tillväxten och generella välståndsökningen efter 1945 utan en långtgående effektivisering av arbetet. Var det begränsade arbetsinnehållet i ett ökat antal yrken det pris människor fick betala för att Sverige skulle ta steget från fattigdom till välfärd?
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- Isacson, Maths, 1948-
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Brytpunkt Bergslagen
- 2008
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Ingår i: Bergslagshistoria. - Karlstad : Föreningen Bergslagsarkiv. - 1653-2848. ; 20, s. 5-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Artikeln beskriver det samarbete som inletts mellan forskare från Bergslagens lärosäten i syfte att studera regionens omvandling i anslutning till den påbörjade satsningen på det industriella kulturarvet, ett samarbete som går under namnet Bergslagssatsningen - kultur och turism. Dessutom analyseras synen på och arbetet med det industriella kulturarvet under de senaste två årtiondena.
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