Essays about: "industrial relations and social state"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words industrial relations and social state.

  1. 1. The Element at the End of the World: Chile’s Green Hydrogen Strategy and the Global Energy Transition

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Eric Teller; [2023]
    Keywords : Scale; pink tide; green development; Chile; hydrogen; climate change; political ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Chile is positioning itself as a leader in the transition to green energy, particularly through its National Green Hydrogen Strategy, which aims to make Chile one of the world’s leading exporters of carbon-neutral hydrogen for energy and industrial applications. This thesis examines Chile’s green hydrogen policy from a political ecology perspective, in the context of 1) the Chilean state’s conception of green development; 2) hydrogen’s political, economic, and ecological challenges to scale; and 3) the left-wing government’s attempt to implement a socially and environmentally just environmental policy paradigm. READ MORE

  3. 2. The New Trade Union Model: A Strategic Action Field Approach to the Trade Union Organization of Umbrella Company Workers in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Moser Uppström; [2023]
    Keywords : Trade unions; Solo self-employment; Umbrella companies; Strategic action fields; Collective actors; Industrial relations; Umbrella company workers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses a new trade union model for umbrella company workers and the changes in the field of trade unions in Sweden. By conceptualizing trade unions as collective actors within strategic action fields I describe and explain how a small independent trade union and challenger in the field, Säljarnas Riksförbund, has managed to construct a new trade union model for umbrella company workers that differs from the traditional model used by the incumbent Unionen, the largest trade union in Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploring land grabbing in Ethiopia - narratives & livelihood implications.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Author : Aylin Nguyen; Linnea Widholm Ivarsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Smallholders; Agriculture development; Agriculture commercialization; local livelihoods; Growth and Transformation Plan; land relations;

    Abstract : The land grabbing phenomena grew in both reported cases and in scholarly interest after the 2008 financial crisis. The concept of land grabbing has been greatly debated and some have chosen the term large scale land acquisition instead, focusing on win-win outcomes while the land grabbing term rather focuses on the unequal power relations involved. READ MORE

  5. 4. Regenerative agriculture : a contested open moment

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Rickard Hedling; [2022]
    Keywords : regenerative agriculture; alternative food networks; food sovereignty; political ecology; discourse food systems;

    Abstract : Agriculture is both heavily impacted by climate change and responsible for greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change. Transitioning towards more sustainable agricultural practices is therefore imperative and requires new ways of thinking about agricultural knowledge and technologies. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Moral Economy of Swedish Labour Market Co-operation and Job Security in the Neoliberal Era

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : James Fleming; [2021]
    Keywords : Moral economy; embedding; industrial relations; Sweden; corporatism; co-operation; job security; ne- oliberalism; labour market negotiations; unions; employer organisations; anthropology; political econ- omy; de-commodification; social peace; Inbäddning; Sverige; samarbete; arbetssäkerhet; nyliberalism; arbetsmarknadsparter; arbetsmarknadsrelationer; arbetsmarknad; förhandlingar; fackförbund; facket; arbetsgivarorganisation; antropologi; social fred; kommodifiering; Svenskt näringsliv; LO; anställningskydd; Las;

    Abstract : In the neoliberal era, there has been a global trend towards increased labour market insecurity and inequality, even in countries traditionally emblematic of union strength and socio-economic security such as Sweden. In this study, I present the first ethnographic research conducted in anthropology of negotiations between the central Swedish union and employer peak bodies (known as the ‘labour market partners’). READ MORE