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Working Conditions for Female and Immigrant Cleaners in Stockholm County – An Intersectional Approach

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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Swedish Collective Agreements and Employers’ Willingness to Hire and Retain Older Workers in Employment

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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Thinking about Later Life: Insights from the Capability Approach [PDF]

, 2018
A major criticism of mainstream gerontological frameworks is the inability of such frameworks to appreciate and incorporate issues of diversity and difference in engaging with experiences of aging.
A Clarke, A Crocker David, A Grenier, A Sen, A Sen, A Sen, A Zaidi, A Zaidi, AK Sen, AM Grenier, B Zimmerman, C Deeming, C Gilleard, C Oldman, C Phillipson, C Stephens, CL Estes, D Massey, DA Clark, E Portacolone, E Raymond, E Sadler, E Sointu, G Wilson, H Dean, I Grewal, I Robeyns, I Robeyns, I Robeyns, I Robeyns, J Baars, J McMullin, J Twigg, J Wiles, J Wolff, L Terzi, M Bernard, M Breheny, M Breheny, M Holstein, M Martinson, M Minkler, M Qizilbash, Manik Gopinath, MF Byskov, ML Smith, N Moran, R Gilroy, R Pain, RL Rubinstein, S Alkire, S Biggs, S Deneulin, S Deneulin, S Katz, S Mitra, S Pickard, T Calasanti, T Calasanti, T Pogge, T. Calasanti, V Timonen, VA Entwistle   +62 more
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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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Exploring and Expanding the Category of ‘Young Workers’ According to Situated Ways of Doing Risk and Safety—a Case Study in the Retail Industry

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, Johnny Dyreborg, Pete Kines, Kent J. Nielsen, Kurt Rasmussen   +4 more
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Outsourcing Equality: Migrant Care Worker Imaginary in Finnish Media

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016
Implications from the restructuring of Nordic eldercare include the incorporation of new categories of care workers and a redefinition of the terms of citizenship and participation in working life.
Camilla Nordberg
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Young Brown Dwarfs as Giant Exoplanet Analogs [PDF]

, 2013
Young brown dwarfs and directly-imaged exoplanets have enticingly similar photometric and spectroscopic characteristics, indicating that their cool, low gravity atmospheres should be studied in concert.
Cruz, Kelle L., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Rice, Emily L., Riedel, Adric   +3 more
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Active Aging Policies between Individual Needs and Collective Goods. A Study of Active Aging Policies and Practices in Norway

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014
A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
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Moving to Diversity [PDF]

, 2017
In this brief, authors Richelle Winkler and Kenneth Johnson, using new data and techniques, find that net migration between U.S. counties increased racial diversity in each of the last two decades. However, migration’s influence on diversity was far from
Johnson, Kenneth M., Winkler, Richelle L
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