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Trade Union Responses to Transnational Labour Mobility in the Finnish-Estonian Context
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This article examines trade union strategies in relation to labor migration in Estonia and Finland, drawing on face-to-face interviews with trade unionists and official union statements.
Rolle Alho
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Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Conflict, Care Work, and the Politicization of Caring
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 The article analyzes the phenomenon of “politicization of caring,” observed in studies of nurse labor conflict, in the context of a small-scale episode of conflict at a Swedish hospital ward.
Magnus Granberg
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 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.
Elin Kvist, Johanna Overud
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Age Management in Danish Companies: What, How, and How Much?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 This article investigates Danish employers’ behavior in the area of active aging, which is made topical by demographic aging. It describes age management practices and explains why some companies are more prone to employ age management than others.
Per H. Jensen, Rasmus Juul Møberg
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Pathogen Dynamics across the Diversity of Aging [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2021 AbstractReproduction, mortality, and immune function often change with age but do not invariably deteriorate. Across the tree of life, there is extensive variation in age-specific performance and changes to key life-history traits. These changes occur on a spectrum from classic senescence, where performance declines with age, to juvenescence, where ...
Clark, Jess +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 This paper deals with the working and employment conditions of cleaners with an overview of Sweden but with main emphasis on the Stockholm region. The article is based on a review of previous research, statistics from Sweden, and interviews with cleaners
Saeid Abbasian, Carina Hellgren
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Demographic change is transforming the EU population structure for the coming decades. One challenge that society faces is to preserve social welfare when elderly persons comprise a larger proportion of the total population.
Carin Ulander-Wänman
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Increasingly Equalized? A Study of Part-Time Work in ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Part-Time Work Regimes
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Recent debates on equalization of part-time work alongside full-time work stress the importance of high quality part-time jobs. This paper compares equalization in banking in three countries: two `old´ part-time work regimes, Norway and Sweden, and ...
Heidi Nicolaisen
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Patterned Inequalities and the Inequality Regime of a Swedish Housing Company
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 In this article, the authors analyze inequalities between different groups of employees at a housing company in a larger Swedish city. The concept of inequality regime is taken as a point of departure. The purposes of the article are three: first, to add
Kristina Boréus, Ulf Mörkenstam
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 Young adult workers aged 18–24 years have the highest risk of accidents at work. Following the work of Bourdieu and Tannock, we demonstrate that young adult workers are a highly differentiated group.
Mette Lykke Nielsen +4 more
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