Essays about: "Reproduction labour"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Reproduction labour.
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1. The Problematisation of Work-Life Balance within the EU, Austria, and Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : In this Master’s thesis it is asked how work-life balance is problematised within the EU, Austria, and Sweden, aiming to understand how certain representations of the work-life balance problem might contribute to the stagnation or progress of tackling gender equality matters. The research question is answered through the analysis of an EU Directive as well as Austrian and Swedish policies and debates applying a post-structural feminist perspective and the What’s the problem represented to be? approach. READ MORE
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2. Revising the link between neighbourhoods and education: The case of well performing middle schools in Malmö
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : How do neighbourhoods affect life chances? This is a question that researchers have asked in different forms as early as the 50’s –and there is no shortage of papers exploring neighbourhood effects: how where we live affects our well-being or our participation in the labour market, our life expectancy or, in general, our life outcomes. Yet, there is less consensus than one would expect from a field that has been this active: mechanisms are not clearly defined, methodologies are often one-sided, theoretical concepts are outdated and sometimes harmful for communities and contextuality of most kinds is surprisingly rare. READ MORE
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3. Family farm and financial asset : external land ownership and family agriculture on the Swedish Plains
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : In Sweden, the potential deregulation of the land market has been discussed in recent years, motivated by the increasing demand for external capital in agriculture. Corporate entities’ are currently restricted from purchasing farmland by the Swedish Land Acquisition Act. READ MORE
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4. “Everything that needs to make the thing a whole” : aestheticization, exclusion and the political economy of Long Bay’s tourism landscape
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : Although a large volume of work has been conducted regarding tourism industries across the world, the dominant analysis in the geographies of tourism tends to draw upon post-modern discourse analysis and representational theories. This has resulted in calls to develop more materialist analyses of tourism landscapes. READ MORE
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5. Every Body in its Place : The reproduction of inequality by way of education in Metropolis and Snowpiercer
University essay from Södertörns högskola/LärarutbildningenAbstract : With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. READ MORE
