Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This reviewis inserted in the theoretic dicussion about militancyand engagement. The current work investigates the trajectory of the militant leaders of social movements in favor of the cause of educationInthe town of Paulo Afonso -Bahia. It was sought to learn wich social resourceswere triggered and converted to different forms of engagement in the investigated spaces.The capital originated from religious militancy presented itself as a fundamental resource to the researched forms ofoperation. Theresources of school diplomas, as well as the relationnetworks, present themselves in this review as important assets to the literate militants, not only in their militancy inside theirsphere of political engagement, but also as mechanisms of professional insertion. Also analyzed, were the relationshipnetworks stablished along social experiences, and their usein favor of theentrancein the militant and professional areas. Given investigation even permittedto relate this kind of militancy to symbolicspecific gratifications of such occupied spaces, as the recognition of identityfriendship networks. The structural transformations that took place in the townin the last few decades were also pointed,here, as important factorsthat influenced the collective mobilization forms analized. / Este estudo está inserido nas discussões teóricas acerca do militantismo e do engajamento. O presente trabalho investiga as trajetórias dos militantes dirigentes dos movimentos sociais voltados para a causa da educação no município de Paulo Afonso-BA. Procurou-se apreender quais os recursos sociais acionados e reconvertidos para diferentes formas de engajamento nos espaços investigados.O capital proveniente da militância religiosa revelou-se como um recurso fundamental para as formas de atuação pesquisadas. Os recursos dos títulos escolares, bem como as redes de relação se mostram como importantes trunfos para os militantes estudados, não só em suas militâncias dentro de suas esferas de atuação política, mas também como mecanismos de inserção profissional. Também foram analisadas as redes de relação estabelecidas ao longo das experiências sociais, e sua utilização em favor do ingresso no meio militante e profissional.Tal investigação permitiu, ainda, relacionar este tipo de militantismo a gratificações simbólicas específicas provenientes desses espaços ocupados, como o reconhecimento identitário e redes de amizades.As transformações estruturais ocorridas no município, nas últimas décadas, também foram apontadas, aqui, como importantes fatores que influenciaram as formas de mobilização coletiva analisadas.

The Chagga people have lived and worked on Mount Kilimanjaro for more than 250 years. Through traditions and social practices within their communities and families, strong bonds are established between the Chagga and their home on the mountain. Kilimanjaro National Park and Forest Reserve (KINAPA) was established in the 1970s to protect and conserve the mountain, based on a long history of colonialism and western ideals. As KINAPA has attempted to preserve the flora and fauna on the uppermost portion of Mount Kilimanjaro, they have alienated local residents from the land through a conservation approach that relies on "fences and fines." By analyzing the interaction between the organization of Kilimanjaro National Park (KINAPA) and the Chagga people who live near its boundaries, I emphasize the social side of a conservation scenario by focusing on the cultural roots of the Chagga people's sense of place and its influence on their interaction with the mountain. I take as a premise that place and culture are closely connected, and that both, in conjunction with an encroaching western influence in environmental approaches, influence environmental conservation in important ways at the local level on Kilimanjaro. By better understanding the motivations and priorities of the people who surround the lands they hope to protect, KINAPA could tap into some of the social resources it needs to sustain Mount Kilimanjaro.

Women are over-represented among the rural poor in developing countries, and the difficulties they face in raising themselves out of poverty are well established. This thesis examines how gender structures trade in local markets and forms of sociability in rural Ethiopia, using survey data from four rural communities and three local market places. Over 600 male and female farmers were surveyed, and qualitative data from interviews and observations was used to interpret and analyze the results. The thesis is in four parts: Part I introduces the research questions, and presents the theory and research methodology. The thesis posits that women’s access to resources is mediated via men, making it difficult for them to head their own households. Part II links the theoretical concepts to conditions in the field, showing how the the less valued activities are assigned to women, and develops a resource index that establishes the inequality in resource access. Part III proves that gender structures local markets and that the inequality in access to resources is reproduced in these. Yet trading offers an important livelihood for women, challenging their isolation and expanding their choices and markets are arenas in which they can exercise their agency. Part IV shows that local forms of sociability are also structured by gender and influence access to other resources. Density of social network ties and access to rural resources are strongly linked, particularly for female household heads. The final chapter shows how the gendered structure of local markets and sociability allows men to capitalize on resources more effectively than women. But women can carve out space and authority for themselves, lead local organizations and become active traders, and are actually less embedded in communities and more embedded in markets than men. The thesis problematizes the livelihood options open to female household heads, and how they balance these between markets and communities. The thesis concludes that future attempts to strengthen local markets and institutions must acknowledge that women and men face different constraints and opportunities. Women's room for maneuver could then translate into real empowerment.

Community coalitions are prime vehicles for fostering social support within communities and prominent mechanisms for building local capacities to address health and social concerns. However, sustaining these entities beyond initial efforts and funding is difficult. What has kept members participating in and committed to the work of the Clarkston (Georgia) Health Collaborative, a community coalition, nearly 15 years after its inception? Prior research has examined several variables that predict overall participation and commitment in community-based coalitions, however, the literature has largely focused on coalitions that are topic driven (e.g., diabetes, gang violence, drugs, or obesity). These studies fail to identify those factors that are important in sustaining efforts in non-topic-based (i.e., there is no singular focus, but topics are community generated and vary), non-grant-funded community coalitions. This cross-sectional study examines member engagement as a sustaining factor of coalitions. Members of the Clarkston Health Collaborative (N = 93), ages 21 to 70 years and representing various sectors of the community, as well as racial and ethnic backgrounds, were surveyed as part of a coalition assessment in 2007 and 2008 in Clarkston, Georgia. Predictors that influence their participation and commitment, key components of engagement, are analyzed. These components were: leadership, social resources, sense of community, empowerment, member satisfaction, communication, decision making, and participation benefits. Based on the review of the literature, specific mediating relationships are hypothesized. A mixed-methods approach is employed, including path analysis that tests how well process models fit the coalition data, as well as key informant interviews by coalition members. Toward a conceptual model of engagement, findings supported the hypothesis that effective leadership increases member participation through increased social resources. Findings also supported the hypotheses that shared decision making and effective leadership increases member commitment through increased member satisfaction. Clear communication and sense of community were also factors that contributed to increased participation and commitment. These findings have implications for intervention, policy, and research, including a need for interventions that recognize the contexts of influence that foster member engagement in community-based coalitions. In addition, insight is gained for the planning and implementation of other coalitions to help ensure coalition sustainability.

Este estudo está inserido na temática da formação de elites dirigentes no Brasil e tem como objetivo analisar as origens sociais, trajetórias sociais e profissionais, os recursos sociais herdados e adquiridos e os respectivos princípios de legitimação de uma elite técnica do Estado brasileiro no período compreendido entre 1930 e 1945, em nível nacional, que, especificamente, foi composta por seis homens que ocuparam posições de direção no Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP) durante o Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; e Mário Bittencourt Sampaio. Tomando como ponto de partida a condição periférica da sociedade brasileira e, consequentemente, a inexistência de estruturas sociais em que o título profissional seja o principal princípio de hierarquização, propõe-se tornar explícito os condicionantes sociais e culturais de formação dessa elite que atuou como mediadora na importação de modelos e princípios da Administração Científica norteamericana. Analisando as transformações ocorridas na estrutura organizativa e institucional do Estado no período, aponta-se a adaptação dos bens simbólicos importados para um contexto que diverge do de origem e evidencia-se a continuidade das interseções entre a esfera burocrática e a esfera política. Frente à proximidade dos universos sociais com a política, examina-se as origens sociais e as trajetórias sociais e profissionais dos agentes enfocados pelo estudo e evidencia-se os tipos de recursos e os modos como foram acumulados e acionados por eles para a realização de trajetórias de êxito no Estado. Destacase, como resultado, a utilização de recursos diversos que permitem a reprodução de grupos já socialmente dominantes, as relações dos trunfos sociais como a posse de redes de relações sociais e um capital simbólico personificado com o acesso e a manutenção de posições sociais dominantes, e, em função destes mecanismos pessoais de dominação e inserções nas redes de reciprocidade, as redefinições dos trunfos profissionais e princípios administrativos importados nas lutas políticas pelo controle do Estado e pela autoridade legítima de construir a nação. / This study is inserted under the scenery of the formation of ruling elites in Brazil and intends to analyse the social origins, social and professional trajectories, inherited and acquired social resources and its principles of legitimacy of a technical elite of the Brazilian state in the period between 1930 and 1945 at the national level, specifically composed by six men who occupied leadership positions in the Administrative Department of Public Service (DASP) during the Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; and Mario Bittencourt Sampaio. Taking as its starting point the peripheral condition of Brazilian society and, consequently, the absence of social structures in which the professional title is the main hierarchical principle, it is proposed to make explicit the social and cultural conditions of formation of such elite who acted as a mediator in the importing process of models, principles and ideologies of the North American Scientific Management. By analysing the changes occurred in the organizational and institutional structure of the national in this period, is appointed the adaptation of the symbolic goods imported into a context that differs from its source and is demonstrated the continuity of the intersections between both the bureaucratic sphere and the political sphere. In face of the proximity of different social universes with politics, it is examined the social origins as well as the social and professional trajectory of these six agents focused by this study and it is highlighted the types of resources and different ways they were managed which leaded them to some well-succeeded trajectories in the State. It is highlighted, as a conclusion: a) the usage of several resources that allowed the reproduction of existing socially dominant groups; b) the relationship between both social resources such as the possession of social networks and symbolic capital based on the person and the access and maintenance of ruling positions; c) according to these personal mechanisms of domination and insertions on reciprocity relations, occurs the redefinitions and reappropriations of professional assets and the imported administrative principles as an resource in the political struggles for the control of the state and the legitimate authority to build the nation.

Este estudo está inserido na temática da formação de elites dirigentes no Brasil e tem como objetivo analisar as origens sociais, trajetórias sociais e profissionais, os recursos sociais herdados e adquiridos e os respectivos princípios de legitimação de uma elite técnica do Estado brasileiro no período compreendido entre 1930 e 1945, em nível nacional, que, especificamente, foi composta por seis homens que ocuparam posições de direção no Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP) durante o Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; e Mário Bittencourt Sampaio. Tomando como ponto de partida a condição periférica da sociedade brasileira e, consequentemente, a inexistência de estruturas sociais em que o título profissional seja o principal princípio de hierarquização, propõe-se tornar explícito os condicionantes sociais e culturais de formação dessa elite que atuou como mediadora na importação de modelos e princípios da Administração Científica norteamericana. Analisando as transformações ocorridas na estrutura organizativa e institucional do Estado no período, aponta-se a adaptação dos bens simbólicos importados para um contexto que diverge do de origem e evidencia-se a continuidade das interseções entre a esfera burocrática e a esfera política. Frente à proximidade dos universos sociais com a política, examina-se as origens sociais e as trajetórias sociais e profissionais dos agentes enfocados pelo estudo e evidencia-se os tipos de recursos e os modos como foram acumulados e acionados por eles para a realização de trajetórias de êxito no Estado. Destacase, como resultado, a utilização de recursos diversos que permitem a reprodução de grupos já socialmente dominantes, as relações dos trunfos sociais como a posse de redes de relações sociais e um capital simbólico personificado com o acesso e a manutenção de posições sociais dominantes, e, em função destes mecanismos pessoais de dominação e inserções nas redes de reciprocidade, as redefinições dos trunfos profissionais e princípios administrativos importados nas lutas políticas pelo controle do Estado e pela autoridade legítima de construir a nação. / This study is inserted under the scenery of the formation of ruling elites in Brazil and intends to analyse the social origins, social and professional trajectories, inherited and acquired social resources and its principles of legitimacy of a technical elite of the Brazilian state in the period between 1930 and 1945 at the national level, specifically composed by six men who occupied leadership positions in the Administrative Department of Public Service (DASP) during the Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; and Mario Bittencourt Sampaio. Taking as its starting point the peripheral condition of Brazilian society and, consequently, the absence of social structures in which the professional title is the main hierarchical principle, it is proposed to make explicit the social and cultural conditions of formation of such elite who acted as a mediator in the importing process of models, principles and ideologies of the North American Scientific Management. By analysing the changes occurred in the organizational and institutional structure of the national in this period, is appointed the adaptation of the symbolic goods imported into a context that differs from its source and is demonstrated the continuity of the intersections between both the bureaucratic sphere and the political sphere. In face of the proximity of different social universes with politics, it is examined the social origins as well as the social and professional trajectory of these six agents focused by this study and it is highlighted the types of resources and different ways they were managed which leaded them to some well-succeeded trajectories in the State. It is highlighted, as a conclusion: a) the usage of several resources that allowed the reproduction of existing socially dominant groups; b) the relationship between both social resources such as the possession of social networks and symbolic capital based on the person and the access and maintenance of ruling positions; c) according to these personal mechanisms of domination and insertions on reciprocity relations, occurs the redefinitions and reappropriations of professional assets and the imported administrative principles as an resource in the political struggles for the control of the state and the legitimate authority to build the nation.

Este estudo está inserido na temática da formação de elites dirigentes no Brasil e tem como objetivo analisar as origens sociais, trajetórias sociais e profissionais, os recursos sociais herdados e adquiridos e os respectivos princípios de legitimação de uma elite técnica do Estado brasileiro no período compreendido entre 1930 e 1945, em nível nacional, que, especificamente, foi composta por seis homens que ocuparam posições de direção no Departamento Administrativo do Serviço Público (DASP) durante o Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; e Mário Bittencourt Sampaio. Tomando como ponto de partida a condição periférica da sociedade brasileira e, consequentemente, a inexistência de estruturas sociais em que o título profissional seja o principal princípio de hierarquização, propõe-se tornar explícito os condicionantes sociais e culturais de formação dessa elite que atuou como mediadora na importação de modelos e princípios da Administração Científica norteamericana. Analisando as transformações ocorridas na estrutura organizativa e institucional do Estado no período, aponta-se a adaptação dos bens simbólicos importados para um contexto que diverge do de origem e evidencia-se a continuidade das interseções entre a esfera burocrática e a esfera política. Frente à proximidade dos universos sociais com a política, examina-se as origens sociais e as trajetórias sociais e profissionais dos agentes enfocados pelo estudo e evidencia-se os tipos de recursos e os modos como foram acumulados e acionados por eles para a realização de trajetórias de êxito no Estado. Destacase, como resultado, a utilização de recursos diversos que permitem a reprodução de grupos já socialmente dominantes, as relações dos trunfos sociais como a posse de redes de relações sociais e um capital simbólico personificado com o acesso e a manutenção de posições sociais dominantes, e, em função destes mecanismos pessoais de dominação e inserções nas redes de reciprocidade, as redefinições dos trunfos profissionais e princípios administrativos importados nas lutas políticas pelo controle do Estado e pela autoridade legítima de construir a nação. / This study is inserted under the scenery of the formation of ruling elites in Brazil and intends to analyse the social origins, social and professional trajectories, inherited and acquired social resources and its principles of legitimacy of a technical elite of the Brazilian state in the period between 1930 and 1945 at the national level, specifically composed by six men who occupied leadership positions in the Administrative Department of Public Service (DASP) during the Estado Novo: Jorge Oscar de Mello Flôres; Rafael da Silva Xavier; Luiz Simões Lopes; Moacir Ribeiro Briggs; Murilo Braga de Carvalho; and Mario Bittencourt Sampaio. Taking as its starting point the peripheral condition of Brazilian society and, consequently, the absence of social structures in which the professional title is the main hierarchical principle, it is proposed to make explicit the social and cultural conditions of formation of such elite who acted as a mediator in the importing process of models, principles and ideologies of the North American Scientific Management. By analysing the changes occurred in the organizational and institutional structure of the national in this period, is appointed the adaptation of the symbolic goods imported into a context that differs from its source and is demonstrated the continuity of the intersections between both the bureaucratic sphere and the political sphere. In face of the proximity of different social universes with politics, it is examined the social origins as well as the social and professional trajectory of these six agents focused by this study and it is highlighted the types of resources and different ways they were managed which leaded them to some well-succeeded trajectories in the State. It is highlighted, as a conclusion: a) the usage of several resources that allowed the reproduction of existing socially dominant groups; b) the relationship between both social resources such as the possession of social networks and symbolic capital based on the person and the access and maintenance of ruling positions; c) according to these personal mechanisms of domination and insertions on reciprocity relations, occurs the redefinitions and reappropriations of professional assets and the imported administrative principles as an resource in the political struggles for the control of the state and the legitimate authority to build the nation.

This dissertation analyses the career of psychologists working in a management position at different area of activities of the Psychology in the city of Aracaju/SE, and try to understand the social resources (academic, economic, political, religious, social origin, original position, social relations and professional and social status), which are mobilized by these professionals since their entry and rise in the professional market, besides of permanency in the managerial jobs such important to professional success. The interest appeared from the curiosity to investigate this group, based in the fact that is a predominantly individualistic profession, and so, has created some questions to be answered: a) what are the working areas of psychologists? b) How they rise to higher hierarchical levels in different areas of activities? c) How their academic and job career contributed to hold such prominent posts? The social resources were used as indicators to stand and explain the question. The empirical universe is provided by psychologist holding manager positions at psychology working area. This dissertation is divided in four moments: the first of them leaded the theoretical and conceptual model around the institutionalization of psychology profession, social resources and trajectory and its interrelations; the second investigated and treated the social conditions with the emergence and establishment of the profession of psychology in Brazil and Sergipe; the third presented and discussed the sociography of the psychology in Brazil based on two Brazilian researches; and the fourth demonstrated the career of the agents inside of a social composition analysis, academic life, the investment and professional perception and aimed to comprehend the request of social resources. This work explained that the request of social and cultural resources fundamentally burden to assume managerial posts and the use of these resources to assure the integration, permanency and rising to higher professional levels. The way as those resources were required is related to network relations, and were established and articulated directly by the agents or through their families, teachers and classmates. The period when these resources were triggered started at the university entrance. Cultural capital has its basis in the university degree (diploma), technical knowledge, expertise in the area and others important titles, however, the graduation is mandatory and essential to the professional insertion. To have an entrepreneur, persuasive and active posture is also very important to assume privileged positions. In regard of professional involvement and commitment, what cares is to be registered in the Psychology Council, to be involved with social work groups and engaged with both study groups and specific associations within more than one professional area of activity and working. It was in fact perceived that social networks were generated, established and maintained along the carrier of the agents. / Esta dissertação analisa a trajetória dos psicólogos que ocupam posição gerencial em diferentes espaços de atuação da Psicologia na cidade de Aracaju/SE, buscando compreender quais são os recursos sociais (origem social, posição de origem e escolar, relações sociais, econômicas, políticas, religiosas, profissionais e posição social) mobilizados por estes profissionais desde a entrada no mercado profissional, ascensão dentro da profissão e permanência nos postos gerenciais na profissão (que pesam para a consagração profissional). O interesse surgiu da curiosidade em identificar e conhecer este grupo, por se tratar de uma profissão predominantemente individualista, gerando assim as indagações: a) em que espaços profissionais os psicólogos estão atuando? b) como esses profissionais chegam aos postos hierárquicos mais altos dentro dos diversos espaços de atuação? c) como suas trajetórias escolares e profissionais pesaram para a ocupação de tais postos de destaque? Os recursos sociais foram utilizados como indicadores e deram suporte para elucidar a questão. O universo empírico é constituído pelos psicólogos que ocupam cargos gerenciais na psicologia. Esta dissertação está dividida em quatro momentos: o primeiro trouxe à tona o modelo teórico/conceitual em torno da institucionalização da profissão de psicologia, recursos sociais e trajetórias e suas inter-relações; o segundo investigou e tratou das condições sociais do surgimento e estabelecimento da profissão de psicologia no Brasil e em Sergipe; o terceiro apresentou e discutiu a sociografia da psicologia no Brasil segundo duas pesquisas nacionais; e o quarto trouxe as trajetórias dos agentes pesquisados dentro de uma análise de composição social, percurso educacional, investimento e percepção profissional com o objetivo de compreender o acionamento dos recursos sociais. Esta dissertação permite mostrar que é o acionamento dos recursos social e cultural que pesam fundamentalmente para a ocupação de postos gerencias e o uso destes recursos garantem a inserção, permanência e ascensão a postos mais elevados na profissão. A maneira como esses recursos foram acionados estão relacionados às redes de relações, pois estas foram estabelecidas e articuladas no uso direto pelos agentes ou por intermédio de seus familiares, professores e colegas de curso. O período em que estes recursos foram acionados começa a partir da formação universitária. Quanto ao recurso cultural verificou-se que a formação acadêmica (ter diploma), o conhecimento técnico, expertise na área e outros títulos robustos são basilares, sendo o primeiro obrigatório para inserção profissional. Ter uma postura empreendedora, persuasiva e ativa também é significativo para a ocupação dos postos privilegiados. Quanto ao engajamento profissional, o que pesa é estar associado ao Conselho da categoria, ligado e envolvido em algum grupo/associação específico, engajando-se em trabalhos sociais, envolvido em grupo/associação de estudo específica em sua área/linha de atuação e atuando em mais de um espaço dentro na profissão. Percebeu-se de fato que redes sociais foram geradas, estabelecidas e mantidas ao longo dos percursos dos agentes.

The impact of ethnic residential concentration on the process of integration of ethnic minorities into the mainstream society has been increasingly debated among both scholars and policy makers across Europe. This thesis seeks to contribute to this debate by addressing the effect of ethnic residential concentration on the political participation of Black Africans in Britain. The study pursues three main objectives: investigating the marginalising or mobilising impact of co-ethnic residential concentration on political participation; disentangling the processes underpinning this relationship by focusing on the effect of ethnic-based social networks, represented here by voluntary organisations, religious institutions and informal social networks; exploring the influence of the immigration-related heterogeneity that characterises the Black African community on the relationship between residential concentration, ethnic social networks and political participation. A mixed-method approach is adopted. The quantitative enquiry focuses on the Black African community as a whole and relies on secondary data drawn from the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Electoral Survey. The qualitative enquiry is based on primary data collected through face-to-face interviews and participant observation among Ghanaians and Somalis in London. The quantitative analysis shows that, among Black Africans, residential concentration has a mobilising effect on voter turnout but a marginalising effect on non-electoral participation. Ethnic social networks do not seem to mediate this relationship. Residential concentration is significantly, and positively, correlated to individual participation in ethnic places of worship and embeddedness in ethnic informal networks but not to involvement in ethnic organisations. In turn, the latter positively influences non-electoral engagement whereas ethnic places of worship and informal networks are not related to political engagement. The qualitative findings suggest that residential concentration is more relevant for the creation of and participation in ethnic organisations among Somalis than among Ghanaians. However, this relationship is likely to be influenced by other contextual factors such as institutional support, ethnic diversity and tribal homogeneity. Somali organisations also seem to play a more active political role than Ghanaian groups with regard to both electoral and non-electoral engagement. The two communities appear to be more similar when considering the relationship between ethnic religious institutions and informal connections with co-ethnics. These networks are not necessarily dependent on ethnic residential clustering and their effect on political engagement is primarily linked to informal political discussion. Overall, the results suggest that the relationship between residential concentration, ethnic social networks and political participation of Black Africans varies considerably between the two national groups researched, primarily due to their immigration-related characteristics, as well as across modes of political engagement (i.e. electoral, non-electoral) and local contexts.

Världens industrier genomgår en stor förändring. Fler delar av industrins processer automatiserar. Detta påverkar bland annat industrins ekonomi samt dess personal. Syftet med denna rapport är att identifiera hur industrirobotar påverkar företagets ekonomi samt hur företagets personal påverkas. För att genomföra detta har dels information inhämtas från äldre akademiska handlingar. Även fältstudier har genomförts. Litteraturstudien genomfördes först för att införskaffa den kunskap som krävs för att kunna jämföras med den empiriska-/fältstudien. Den empiriska studien bestod av två delar. Del ett består av ett frågeformulär, detta frågeformulär skickades ut till både robottillverkare och industrier som använder industrirobotar. Denna del gjordes för att inhämta mycket data till rapporten. Del två består av tre intervjuer med anställda på företag som arbetar med industrirobotar samt en intervju med en doktorand som forskar om industrirobotar. Denna del genomfördes för att få en mer detaljerad beskrivning av frågeställningarna. Del ett och två har sedan diskuteras för att sedan komma fram till slutsatsen att jobben i industrin påverkas mer positivt än man tidigare befarat. Industrirobotarna räddar dels jobb som annars hade försvunnit, dels gör det möjligt att ta hem produktionen till Sverige och därav generera fler jobb. Ytterligare en slutsats som kunnat konstateras är att den primärt avgörande faktorn för investeringar i industrirobotar är att företaget gynnas ekonomiskt samt att den till största del enbart ses som en bonus att de anställdas arbetsmiljö förbättras. / The world's industries are undergoing a major change. More parts of the industry's processes are automated. This affects, among other things, the industry's finances, and its staff. The purpose of this report is to identify how industrial robots affect the company's finances and how the company's personnel are affected. To implement this, information has been obtained from older academic documents and field studies have been carried out. The literature study was first conducted to acquire the knowledge required to be able to be compared with the empirical / field study. The empirical study consisted of two parts. Part one consists of a questionnaire, this questionnaire was sent out to both robot manufacturers and industries that use industrial robots. This part was done to gather a lot of data for the report. Part two consists of three interviews with employees of companies that work with industrial robots and one interview with a researcher at KTH that focus on industrial robots. This part was carried out to get a more detailed description of the issues. Part one and two have then been discussed to then conclude that jobs in the industry are affected more positively than previously feared. The industrial robots save jobs that would otherwise have disappeared and make it possible to bring production home to Sweden and thereby generate more jobs. Another conclusion that has been established is that the primarily decisive factor for investments in industrial robots is that the company benefits financially and that it is for the most part only seen as a bonus that the employees' working environment is improved.