Sökning: "Feminization of labour"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Feminization of labour.
1. The neoliberal dream of RUT : An analysis of constructions of equality within the Swedish parliamentary debate
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)Sammanfattning : The buying of domestic services in Sweden has become an increasingly privatized practice, something that correlates with the global feminization and racialisation of domestic labour. Although RUT deductions within the domestic sector historically have been a criticised phenomenon, it is today representing a politically normalised labour market measure. LÄS MER
2. “We do not like to stay in the villages just cutting grass and looking after the livestock” : patterns of change in the rural Ramechhap district of Nepal
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : This thesis is about continuity and change in rural Nepal with the purpose of understanding what changes migration has brought about in rural villages in the Ramechhap district. Migration is not a new phenomenon in Nepal, which has a long history of both domestic and foreign migration. LÄS MER
3. Kvinnors egna berättelser om fattigdom : En kvalitativ studie av tre skönlitterära böcker om att vara kvinna och fattig i Sverige
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanSammanfattning : Sweden is generally associated as a good example of a welfare state, but research shows that both relative poverty and economic inequality are increasing. People who have once been in poverty are likely to fall back. Amongst the poor population, women are the dominating group and are more likely to be poor than men. LÄS MER
4. “The Filipina is a fighter, a fighter for her rights, a fighter for her freedom to work and freedom to express herself” : An anthropological study about the feminization of migration in the Philippines
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Kulturantropologiska avdelningenSammanfattning : This thesis is a result of a Minor Field Study with the purpose to examine the transnational labour migration by women in the Philippines who seek temporary employment abroad but plan to return to the Philippines after their contracts expired. The thesis is based on three months of anthropological fieldwork primarily in Manila between January and March 2013, using interviews and observations as my main methodological tool. LÄS MER
5. Yarden/Yarden : En berättelse om prekaritetens verklighetsuppfattning
Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : By using contemorary work-theory this thesis aim to show how Yarden. En berättelse, puts into play the circumstances of precarian work, circumstances that have gender political as well as identity political overtones. It tries to show how the idea of ”class-jouney” is used as a conciliatory element. LÄS MER