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Meaningfulness in the Work of Language Professionals
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022 This qualitative study explores the changes that a specific group of knowledge workers – language professionals in Finland – have undergone in their work and how they perceive the meaningfulness of their work as a result.
Jenni Virtaluoto, Satu Selkälä
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The Scandinavian industrial democracy experiments (IDEs) contained elements of organization theories, based particularly on sociotechnical systems theory (STS).
Lars Klemsdal +3 more
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Precarious Work in the Nordics
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 In recent years, we have seen a growing body of literature with a strong focus on labour market inequalities. In the Anglo-Saxon literature, concepts such as the working poor and bad jobs have been applied to jobs in, for example, the US to describe jobs
Anna Ilsøe +2 more
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Perfect Match? The Practice Ecology of a Labor Market Initiative for Refugees
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2018 The article investigates the case of a Danish labor market initiative for refugees with a professional engineering background. The ambition is to identify the causes and contextual elements that are active in shaping labor market initiatives directed at ...
Sara Kristine Gløjmar Berthou +1 more
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Company welfare in modern Argentine railways: characteristics and challenges (1890-1920)
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2021 This article explores company welfare programs in the railways in modern Argentina from the 1890s to the 1920s. It concentrates on the singularities of these companies' strategies, considering that the local society was shaped by a process of mass ...
Silvana A. Palermo
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Employee-driven Innovation in Welfare Services
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 There is a growing interest in both employee-driven innovation (EDI) and innovation in welfare services, but a lack of empirical studies addressing innovation from the employee perspective.
Thomas Wihlman +3 more
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Light Magazine in the construction of the ideal worker in the 1930s
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2021 The purpose of this article is to point out the relevance and objectives of Light Magazine (1928-1940), from The Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power, in its project to train its workers in the 1930s.
Guilherme Fernandes Reis das Chagas
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Accord on “Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”: A Breakthrough Agreement?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This discussion aims to review the emergence of the “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh” signed on May 13, 2013, and evaluate if it is an international agreement “breakthrough”.
Zillur Rahman
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Organizing Capacities and Union Priorities in the Hotelsector in Oslo, Dublin, and Toronto
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 In this article, we draw international comparisons between industrial relations regimes in the hotel sector and compare relevant trade union experiences in the selected metropolitan areas of Oslo, Dublin, and Toronto.
Ann Cecilie Bergene +2 more
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Boom and stagnation: a century of slavery in Curitiba (1765-1862)
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2021 In this article an attempt is made to use burial records to describe some basic characteristics of the slave population of Curitiba, studying also the economic activities to which the slaves’ work was directed.
Carlos Alberto Medeiros Lima
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