Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor ...movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class organizations. She reveals that the leadership of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) was well aware of the identity problems that the left-wing factions had created for the reformist unions. Crafting the Movement explains how this led labor movement leaders towards a re-formulation of the notion of the worker by constructing an organizational identity that downplayed class struggle and embraced discipline, peaceful solutions to labor market problems, and cooperation with the employers. As Jansson shows, study activities arranged by the Workers' Educational Association became the main tool of the Trade Union Confederation's identity policy in the 1920s and 1930s and its successful outcome paved the way for the well-known Swedish Model. Thanks to generous funding from Uppsala University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories.
This study in comparative politics takes two countries with similar historical experiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and asks why they had very different responses to the same natural ...shock--the depression of the 1930s. In analyzing their responses, Berman makes a convincing case for the important role ideas play in politics.
The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing ...search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a "free culture" message that came into conflict with the European Union's legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as "cultural environmentalism," a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization.
Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and impact of stroke-related comorbidity in a community-based sample of stroke survivors. With respect to the patients’ ...functional outcomes and general health, we wanted to find out which types of comorbidity were most important.
Materials and Methods : All stroke survivors (n = 330) living in a medium-sized Swedish municipality were included. To determine the presence of comorbidities patient records were reviewed. A selection of patient reported outcomes were used to assess subjective symptoms, functional outcomes, and general health. All patients were asked to answer a questionnaire, the Swedish Stroke Register (Riksstroke). Three questions from the questionnaire were used as additional measures of comorbidity. “Do you feel tired?,” “Do you have pain?” and “Do you feel depressed?” As outcome measures the patient reported measures from the Riksstroke questionnaire were used: * Do you still have problems after your stroke? * Have you been able to return to the life and activities you had before the stroke? * How is your mobility now? * Do you get help from someone when visiting the toilet? * Do you get help with dressing and undressing? * How do you assess your general health? Logistic regression models were used to investigate the association between comorbidities, residual symptoms, and subjective symptoms on the one hand, and functional outcomes and general health on the other hand.
Results : Hypertension (80%) was the most common cardiovascular risk factor. Ischemic heart disease was found in 18% and congestive heart failure in 10%. Of non-cardiovascular disorders, orthopedic diseases were commonest (30%). Psychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment were present in 11% and 12% respectively. Logistic regression analyses found that hemiparesis was associated with both poorer functional outcomes and lower general health. Additionally, orthopedic disorders, vertigo, cognitive impairment, nicotine use, chronic pulmonary disorders, and older age, were also associated with poorer functional outcomes. Psychiatric, orthopedic and neurological disorders were associated with poorer general health. The patient-reported outcome measure “feeling of tiredness” was a predictor of both outcomes, while “feeling depressed” and “having pain” were associated with poorer general health.
Conclusions : Many medical conditions, several of which have received little attention so far, are associated with poorer functional outcome and lower general health among stroke survivors. Future research into comorbidities relevant to function and general health in stroke patients could further focus on these disorders that hitherto have received little attention.
Mellan Malmö och Minneapolis, mellan Jönköping och Seattle, mellan Kråkeryd och London, sträcker sig texterna i denna historievetenskapliga antologi tillägnade Lars Edgren, professor i historia vid ...Lunds universitet. Tematiskt ryms de under tre övergripande rubriker: Kultur, Arbete och Konflikt.
Between growth and security Andersson, Jenny
2013, 2006., 20130719, 2007, 2013-07-19, 20060101, 2006
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The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the ...universalism of the Swedish welfare state. However as the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) embarked on its Third Way in 1981, this outlook on social policy as a productive investment was replaced by the identification of social policy as a cost and a burden for growth. This book discusses the components of this ideological turnaround from Swedish social democracy’s post-war notion of a strong society, to its notion of a Third Way in the early 1980s. It is a novel and innovative contribution to the history of Swedish social democracy and recent developments in the Swedish welfare state, and it also sheds light on contemporary social policy debates. It will appeal to a wide readership from students of contemporary history and politics to policy makers and specialists.
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Bulk soil water isotopes have an evaporation signal, but mobile water isotopes do not.
These differences are time variant and linked to the volume and age of the mobile water.
Two pore ...domains (fast and slow) improve simulations of soil water isotope dynamics.
A new model accounts for isotopic exchange via water vapor between two pore domains.
This exchange is relevant for proper simulation of the evaporation signal in bulk soil water.
Recent findings from stable isotope studies have opened up new questions about differences in the isotopic composition (δ2H and δ18O) of mobile (MW) and bulk water (BW) in soils. We sampled the isotopic compositions of MW using suction lysimeters and BW with the direct‐equilibration method. The study was conducted at two landscape units in each of three catchments: the Bruntland Burn (Scotland), Dorset (Canada), and Krycklan (Sweden). We further used the numerical one‐dimensional flow model SWIS (Soil Water Isotope Simulator) to simulate the hydrometric and isotopic dynamics. The model included evaporation fractionation, allowed differentiation between a fast and a slow flow domain, and included isotopic exchange via water vapor. Our measurements showed that MW plots along the local meteoric water lines, whereas BW plots below, which is indicative of evaporation fractionation. We suggest that the relative volume of MW to BW is relevant for explaining these isotopic differences because MW volumes are usually relatively low during periods of high evaporation. Under this condition, differences between MW and plant water isotopes are not paradoxical but rather related to the water that cannot be sampled with suction lysimeters but is still available for plant water uptake. The simulations accounting for fast and slow flow supported the conceptualization of the two soil pore domains with isotopic exchange via vapor exchange because this model setup resulted in the best model performance. Overall, these findings are of high relevance for current understanding related to the source and isotopic composition of water taken up by plants.
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