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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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From grounded skills to sky qualifications
- 2005
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In: selected papers from the 4th international conference on researching work and learning. - Sydney : Oval research.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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From grounded skills to sky qualifications : a study of workers creating and recreating qualifications, identity and gender at an underground iron ore mine in Sweden
- 2006
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In: Journal of Industrial Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0022-1856 .- 1472-9296. ; 48:5, s. 657-676
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Over a period of 50 years at Kiruna iron ore mine in the far north of Sweden we can see a transformation of work from underground to remote control at surface level. What characterized the old underground workface was the close relation between man and the hard rock centred on arduous physical work under dangerous conditions. Today, the face miners are located ‘up in the sky' on the seventh level of an office building close to the mine. The workers leave their job at the end of the shift just as clean as when they arrived. The contact with the hard rock is mediated by machines controlled by remote control technology. The modern technology has created a new type of work - new in terms of competencies and knowledge as well as workload. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the technical development of underground mining in Kiruna and to consider the implications it has had on qualifications, identity and gender. There is an emerging, and in many aspects already evident, knowledge transformation - from the old and obsolete physical and tacit knowledge and skills (for example the ability to ‘read the rock') to something new which can be described as abstract knowledge. But the old culture still provides an important context for workplace learning and the construction of identity and gender. This is associated with a degree of ‘worker identity lag' and to difficulties in adapting attitudes and norms to the demands and structures that result from the new technology and the new work tasks. The new forms of work in the mine have less need for the traditional mining competencies, attitudes and ideals. The traditional workplace culture and its ‘macho tyle' have also been challenged. Workers have to find new ways to learn and to develop a workplace culture more attuned to a new type of worker identity and masculinity.
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Future mining : workers' skills, identity and gender when meeting changing technology
- 2008
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to discuss how to form work and organisations in the mines of the future. The Kiruna underground iron ore mine in the far north of Sweden is used as an example on how technical development affects organisational issues like skills, work identity and gender. Over a period of 50 years one can see a transformation of work from manual underground work to automation and remote control from surface level. What characterised the old underground workface was the close relation between man and the hard rock and with arduous physical work under dangerous conditions. Today, the face miners are located on the seventh level of an office building close to the mine. There is also an emerging, and in many aspects already evident, knowledge transformation - from the old and obsolete physical and tacit knowledge and skills (for example the ability to ‘read the rock') to something new, which can be described as abstract ‘high-tech' knowledge and skills. The modern technology has created a new type of work - new in terms of competencies and knowledge as well as workload and organisation. At the same time the mining company are recruiting more women and promoting the former pure male work as attractive workplaces for both women and men. All this has effects on how individuals and company create and recreate skills, identity and gender. To some extent the technological development predestines these changes, but there are some choices to be done when forming good work and organisations for the mines of the future. The traditional mining workplace culture and behaviours and the old type of masculinity, the ‘macho' style, will be challenged by the new ‘high-tech' work and new competency demands. The changes risk meeting restoring responses, which can have negative impact on the performance of the organisation, for example making it inflexible and perhaps ‘lagging' behind the technological development. These questions need to be handled when planning future mining.
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Future mining : en rapport från the First International Future Mining Conference 19-21 November 2008 Sydney, Australia
- 2009
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna rapport ingår som en del i förstudien The Mine of the Future - A Conceptual Study. Förstudien ska resultera i ett framtidsscenario som kommer att formuleras på en övergripande konceptuell nivå och omfatta hela gruvbrytningsprocessen, från tidig utredning och gruvplanering till färdig produkt. Nya produktionstekniska lösningar kommer att analyseras och utvärderas genom att de placeras i sitt organisatoriska sammanhang, dvs produktionssystemet ska fungera som en helhet. I rapporten summerar vi erfarenheterna från The First International Future Mining Conference som organiserades av University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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Future of metal mining : sixteen predictions
- 2009
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In: International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. - 1754-890X .- 1754-8918. ; 1:3, s. 304-312
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The world's metal mining industry faces a number of challenges which must be anticipated and managed wisely. The prevailing recession will force the industry to further rationalisations that require both new technologies and new organisational forms that supports both high productivity and good working conditions. Based on what was said at three international mining conferences, the authors of this paper present 16 predictions for the mining industry of the future. In one or another way the mining industry of today must address them all.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena
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Gender-based learning dilemmas in organizations
- 2001
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In: Journal of Workplace Learning. - : Emerald. - 1366-5626 .- 1758-7859. ; 13:7/8, s. 298-307
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Raises questions about the links between gender and organizational changes, and between gender and learning at work. The empirical base is a qualitative study of organizational changes in the pulp and paper industry, electronics industry, food industry, and laundry industry in Sweden during the late 1990s. In the studied companies, restoration responses in the work organizations brought the organization back its original form and function. Shows that gender exerts an influence on the existing work organization and on the organizational change. The learning organization, with its focus on integration and decentralization, challenges gender order, which is a strong system, built on segregation and hierarchy. Concludes that gender segregating and stereotypic gender-coding of workplaces and work tasks were strong restoring mechanisms and obstacles to strategic organizational changes, and to individual and to organizational learning.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena
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Gender based learning dilemmas in work organisations
- 2001
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In: 2nd International conference on researching work and learning: proceedings. - Calgary : Faculty of continuing education, University of Calgary. - 889532508
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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Genus och lärande i arbetslivet
- 2006
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In: Vuxenantologin. - Stockholm : Bokförlaget Atlas. - 9789173892025 ; , s. 409-434
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