Där det dagliga brödet bereds: en intervjustudie om kontinuitet och förändring inom den svenska livsmedelsindustrin ur ett feministiskt-marxistiskt perspektiv

Sammanfattning: In this thesis, I investigate change and continuity within the food industry in Sweden, building on seven interviews with workers in different factories and locations in Sweden. Through a feminist-Marxist understanding of productive and reproductive work, and an analysis of how gender and class are produced and reproduced in organizations, this study examines production work and its impact on the workers’ lives. The thesis further explores how digitalization has come to change social relations at the work place, leading to an increased sense of alienation and preventing social organization at the workplace. The digitalization has also changed how gender is seen and constructed within the food industry. Through concepts such as producers’ pride and commodity fetishism, I make visible that it is human work that creates value in products, through labor processes in which the worker takes pride. This thesis also underlines the food industry’s function as both productive and reproductive, since it produces commodities that are central to the society and every human’s continued reproduction.