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11	Den paternalistiska industriorten : Bolinders mekaniska verkstad i Kallhäll 1906-1931 Udikas, Mats January 2022 (has links) Uppsatsen undersöker de paternalistiska drag som präglade det samhälle som byggdes i Kallhäll i Järfälla av Bolinders mekaniska verkstad 1906–1931. Invånarna talar fortfarande om Kallhäll som en tidigare bruksort. Detta trots att fabriken grundades 100-150 år efter höjdpunkten för det svenska brukssystemet, med paternalismen som en viktig komponent. I början av 1900-talet hade förutsättningarna för företagen förändrats helt. Nya tekniska metoder för järnframställning användes, liksom importerade råvaror, järnvägen gav nya möjligheter till transporter och samhället i stort hade liberaliserats. I den omgivningen grundade företagets huvudägare och verkställande direktör Erik August Bolinder en ny fabriksenhet med ett omgivande bostadsområde på egendomen Kallhäll. Det hade tydliga drag av ett paternalistiskt brukssamhälle. Källmaterialet, främst Bolinders styrelse- och stämmoprotokoll, visar hur demokratiseringen av samhället, de alltmer utvecklade spelreglerna på arbetsmarknaden och ett mer uttalat lönsamhetstänkande bjuder motstånd mot den paternalistiska ideologin. Men samtidigt lever flera av institutionerna i Erik August Bolinders samhällsbygge kvar till långt efter hans död. Company town Paternalism brukssamhälle industrialisering industrihistoria industrisamhälle verkstad Bolinders mekaniska verkstad History Historia
12	Koppardalen : Om historiens plats i omvandlingen av ett industriområde Storm, Anna January 2005 (has links) <p>The empirical focus of this study is the contemporary transition of the industrial area Koppardalen, situated in Avesta in the middle of Sweden. Koppardalen (literary translated “The Copper Valley”) got its name in 1987 when the Avesta municipality bought the area from an iron and steel company. For a century the Koppardalen area, or Norra verken which was its name before 1987, housed production of iron and steel and at its peak employed more than 2000 men.</p><p>In the beginning of the 1980s, iron and steel production had moved out and left the area almost abandoned. When the Avesta municipality became the new owner of Koppardalen it was part of a strategy to transform the area to make it more attractive to light industry and by doing so provide Avesta with new employment opportunities. These plans failed and what happened instead is the object of my analysis.</p><p>The overall purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyse the place of history in the transition process of the Koppardalen industrial area between 1987 and 2003. More specifically, the aim is to answer the two questions: What does the place of history look like? What does the place of history mean?</p><p>My basic theoretical inspiration comes from the French philosopher and critical hermeneuticer Paul Ricoeur and his reasoning about the logic of explanation and understanding. As an operative theoretical tool I use four fundamental historical tropes in order to analyse the place of history in the transition process.</p><p>I have chosen three physical and clearly visible changes in Koppardalen that each constitute one chapter in the study. The first change concerns the old blast furnace, which has been renovated and used for art exhibitions, museum installations and other cultural purposes. The second change concerns two former rolling mills, which have been partly torn down and partly rebuilt into a sports arena and office spaces. The third change concerns a new built bridge for pedestrians and bicyclists that connects the Koppardalen area with Avesta city centre. These two parts had earlier been separated from each other, physically as well as mentally.</p><p>By analysing these three changes I conclude that the most dominant historical trope to be found in Koppardalen is the story about “the foreign country”. The past becomes a different and thrilling contrast that could be used in the effort to make the former industrial area a beautiful, interesting and attractive place. Beside the trope of the foreign country, the story of similarity through history is also present in Koppardalen. Here, the past is compared with today’s situation and periods of change in the past are put into parallel with contemporary challenges of the post-industrial society. Both these tropes, the one of history as a foreign country and the one of history as a parallel of today, paradoxically strengthen the transition process and the power of those actors who work to transform the Koppardalen area.</p><p>One surprising element is the lack of the historical trope of a lost golden age. The proud and prosperous past in the sense of a lost golden age is not to be found in Koppardalen, or at least not in the rhetoric of the politicians and white-collar workers who are the driving forces in the process. In sum, the study shows how the place of history in a contemporary transition process contains a great variety of simultaneously occurring, non-competing historical tropes.</p><p>Key words: industrial history, history of technology, cultural heritage, place of history, use of history, re-use of industrial buildings, urban transition, Sweden, Bergslagen, Avesta.</p> History of technology Teknikhistoria Industriminnesforskning industrihistoria teknikhistoria kulturarv historiebruk återanvändning av industriområden stadsomvandling Bergslagen Avesta History of technology Teknikhistoria
13	Kamratanda mitt bland arsenik, svavel och giftgaser : En studie av metallindustriarbetarförbundets arbete för dess medlemmar på Rönnskärsverket mellan 1930–1950 / Comradeship amongst arsenic, sulphur and toxic gases : A study about the Swedish metal industry labourer´s union work for its members on the Rönnskär smelter between 1930 – 1950 Karlsson, Måns January 2020 (has links) SAMMANFATTNING Under 1900-talets första hälft kom Skellefteåbyggden i Västerbotten att genomgå en dramatisk förändring när ett omfattande fynd av malmförande berg påträffades ca 3 mil utanför Skellefteå stad. Snart etablerades gruvbolaget Boliden AB för att påbörja brytning av malmen. Gruvan kom övertid att visa sig vara en av Europas rikaste guldgruvor och ett smältverk etablerades på ön Rönnskär utanför Skelleftehamn för att smälta ned och förädla malmen. Snart efter det att gruvdriften påbörjats upptäcktes det dock att malmen även innehöll en hög grad av arsenik och svavel. Detta innebar att när malmen bearbetades så uppstod arsenik, svavel och giftgaser vilket ledde till att arbetsmiljön på smältverket blev synnerligen farlig för arbetarna som, över tid, kom att drabbas av ett antal olika negativa hälsoeffekter och ett förkortat liv. Målet för denna uppsats har varit att belysa maktrelationerna mellan arbetare, fackförbund och företag i samband med arbetsmiljöfrågor vid Rönnskärsverket mellan 1930 och 1950. För att göra detta har följande två frågor ställts: Hur arbetade Metallindustriarbetareförbundet för att dokumentera den hälsovådliga arbetsmiljön vid smältverket och på vilka sätt och i vilken utsträckning åtnjöt arbetarna på Rönnskärsverket stöd från Metallindustriarbetareförbundet? Materialet som har använts för att besvara dessa frågor har varit material producerat av förbundet under denna period. Materialet har lästs igenom och analyserats i jakt på strategier som förbundet använt sig av. Resultatet från analysen har visat att förbundet, i huvudsak, använde två strategier för att dokumentera hur skadlig arbetsmiljön var, nämligen omfattande undersökningar av smältverkets arbetsstyrka samt mindre omfattande studier av individuella arbetares hälsa genom läkarundersökningar. Analysens resultat angående uppsatsen andra frågeställning har visat att förbundet arbetade för att säkerställa att arbetarna som led av negativa hälsoeffekter fick ekonomisk kompensation samt att förbundet försökte influera lagstiftning så att den skulle gynna dessa arbetare. / ABSTRACT During the first half of the 20th century the municipality of Skellefteå in West Bothnia was dramatically transformed as massive ore deposit was discovered ca 30 km northwest of the city. Soon mining began by the mining company Boliden AB. The ore deposit would, overtime, prove to be one of Europe’s richest gold mines and a smelter was built on the island of Rönnskär outside Skelleftehamn to process the ore. However, soon after mining had begun it was discovered that the ore contained a high amount of arsenic and sulphur as well. This meant that processing the ore would result in much arsenic, sulphur and toxic gases. This created a hazardous working environment for the smelters labourers and would, overtime, prove to cause a number of health problems and even a premature death. The aim of this essay is to understand the power dynamics between the workers, the union and the company in relation to questions regarding the work environment between 1930 – 1950. In order to understand this two questions have been asked; how did the Swedish metal industry labourer´s union document and gathered evidence about the negative health effects that the environment on Rönnskär had on its members and how did the union work to help members whose health had been damaged by the hazardous working environment? The source material used to answer these questions has been material produced by the union during this period. The material was read and analysed in search of strategies that the union used. The result from the analysis proved that the union used two main strategies to document the hazardous working environment, namely comprehensive studies about the health of the smelters workforce as well as less extensive studies performed through medical examinations of individual labourers. The result from the analysis, with regards to the second aim of this essay, proved that the union worked to make sure that the members that suffered from negative health effects would receive financial compensation as well as trying to influence legislature in a way that would benefit these labourers. Rönnskär Metallindustriarbetareförbundet fackförbund maktanalys Foucault yrkesskador yrkesskadeersättning arsenik svavel cancer Skellefteå smältverk Boliden industrihistoria arbetsplatskonflikter History Historia
14	Koppardalen : Om historiens plats i omvandlingen av ett industriområde Storm, Anna January 2005 (has links) The empirical focus of this study is the contemporary transition of the industrial area Koppardalen, situated in Avesta in the middle of Sweden. Koppardalen (literary translated “The Copper Valley”) got its name in 1987 when the Avesta municipality bought the area from an iron and steel company. For a century the Koppardalen area, or Norra verken which was its name before 1987, housed production of iron and steel and at its peak employed more than 2000 men. In the beginning of the 1980s, iron and steel production had moved out and left the area almost abandoned. When the Avesta municipality became the new owner of Koppardalen it was part of a strategy to transform the area to make it more attractive to light industry and by doing so provide Avesta with new employment opportunities. These plans failed and what happened instead is the object of my analysis. The overall purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyse the place of history in the transition process of the Koppardalen industrial area between 1987 and 2003. More specifically, the aim is to answer the two questions: What does the place of history look like? What does the place of history mean? My basic theoretical inspiration comes from the French philosopher and critical hermeneuticer Paul Ricoeur and his reasoning about the logic of explanation and understanding. As an operative theoretical tool I use four fundamental historical tropes in order to analyse the place of history in the transition process. I have chosen three physical and clearly visible changes in Koppardalen that each constitute one chapter in the study. The first change concerns the old blast furnace, which has been renovated and used for art exhibitions, museum installations and other cultural purposes. The second change concerns two former rolling mills, which have been partly torn down and partly rebuilt into a sports arena and office spaces. The third change concerns a new built bridge for pedestrians and bicyclists that connects the Koppardalen area with Avesta city centre. These two parts had earlier been separated from each other, physically as well as mentally. By analysing these three changes I conclude that the most dominant historical trope to be found in Koppardalen is the story about “the foreign country”. The past becomes a different and thrilling contrast that could be used in the effort to make the former industrial area a beautiful, interesting and attractive place. Beside the trope of the foreign country, the story of similarity through history is also present in Koppardalen. Here, the past is compared with today’s situation and periods of change in the past are put into parallel with contemporary challenges of the post-industrial society. Both these tropes, the one of history as a foreign country and the one of history as a parallel of today, paradoxically strengthen the transition process and the power of those actors who work to transform the Koppardalen area. One surprising element is the lack of the historical trope of a lost golden age. The proud and prosperous past in the sense of a lost golden age is not to be found in Koppardalen, or at least not in the rhetoric of the politicians and white-collar workers who are the driving forces in the process. In sum, the study shows how the place of history in a contemporary transition process contains a great variety of simultaneously occurring, non-competing historical tropes. / QC 20101221 History of technology Teknikhistoria Industriminnesforskning industrihistoria teknikhistoria kulturarv historiebruk återanvändning av industriområden stadsomvandling Bergslagen Avesta History of Technology Teknikhistoria
15	Bilder av en älv : i skärningspunkten mellan energipolitik, kulturarv och feminism Rönnbäck, Erica January 2022 (has links) This essay explores how an image can be shaped and influenced by several different interests, motives, and schools of thought. The work getting analysed is Till minnet av en älv by Anja Örn. It contains video art, sculptures, and text with a number of different frameworks and references.In the background descriptions made, concepts such as ecofeminism and Anthropocene play a role. The essay also touches upon industrial history and cultural heritage which lifts the interesting question of who's history is being written.It's about how our shared memories are shaped in relationship to the landscape, and who gets represented when these memories are transferred to the next generation. kulturarv energipolitik konstvetenskap feminism ekofeminism antropocen industrihistoria Anja Örn Helmer Osslund nationalromantik älv Luleå Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst
16	Taming Exotic Beauties : Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s Öhman, May-Britt January 2007 (has links) This study analyses the history of a large hydroelectric scheme – the Great Ruaha power project in Tanzania. The objective is to establish why and how this specific scheme came about, and as part of this to identify the key actors involved in the decision-making process, including the ideological contexts within which they acted. Although the Tanzanian actors and the World Bank (IBRD) are discussed, main focus is on the Swedish actors on project level.Kidatu, the first phase of the Great Ruaha power project (constructed between1970-1975), became the first large-scale hydropower station in Tanzania. As such, it paved the way for Tanzanian entrance into the Big Dam Era and significant changes within the Tanzanian landscape. As well as the dry river bed at Kidatu, and the small reservoir that precedes it, the Great Ruaha power project also involved the creation of a huge artificial lake, the Mtera reservoir. The Kidatu hydropower station was the first large undertaking within Swedish bilateral aid, and implied the takeover of control of hydropower construction in Tanzania by Swedish enterprises, replacing the enterprises of the former colonial power. A hydropower plant is a complex technoscientific artefact. The construction of a hydropower plant is preceded by a large number of technological choices, scientific prestudies and estimations of costs and revenues. A hydropower plant is also a complex social creation, and is as such filled with social actors engaged in conflicts, compromises and power structures. The decision to construct Kidatu hydropower station was a result of negotiations and activities within what is called “development assistance”. This brings in yet another dimension, the political one, involving export and import of technology, foreign capital, and foreign influence in decision-making processes, as well as ideas about how to bring development and progress to a people supposed to be living in “poverty and misery”. The study is divided into three main parts. The first part analyses the context of Swedish development assistance in the support to the construction of hydropower plants. This part discusses Swedish state-supported hydropower exploitation of indigenous people’s territory within Sweden’s borders in the 20th century and the background of Swedish development assistance, from the 1950s to the early 1960s. The second part analyses the event of Swedish development assistance entering Tanzania and the Great Ruaha power project, with the main focus being on the period 1965 – 1970. The third part is an analysis of the technoscientific basis for the decisions taken to implement the Great Ruaha hydropower scheme. Main focus is on the period 1969-1974, discussed against the backdrop of precolonial and colonial studies. While focus is on the 1960s and 1970s, in both part two and three events in the 1980s and 1990s are discussed. The study shows that although Sweden was not a colonial power in Tanzania, colonial imagery, and relations to the colonial era, as well as Sweden’s background of internal colonialisation, exerted an influence on the decision-making process and the actors involved in the Great Ruaha power project.The study is mainly based on archival sources, complemented with oral sources from Tanzania and Sweden. Recognizing the complexity of large-scale hydropower and the attempts to control watercourses that large scale hydropower necessitates, in the specific context of decolonisation and development assistance that the decision-making process behind the Great Ruaha hydropower scheme reveals, the analysis of the actors involved is based on feminist and postcolonial perspectives. / QC 20100825 History of science and technology Hydropower Electrification Postcolonial Theory Feminist Theory Science and Technology Studies Colonialism Development assistance Africa Tanzania Southern Highlands Great Ruaha River History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria
17	Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century Storm, Anna January 2008 (has links) Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. In recent decades, the former industrial built environment was reinterpreted and reused as apartments, offices, heritage sites, stages for artistic installations and destinations for cultural tourism. Companies and former workers, heritage and planning professionals, as well as artists and urban explorers, were some of the actors involved in the process. The overall aim of the study is to contribute to an understanding of this transformation, and hence it addresses questions about what happened to the industrial places that lost their original function and significance. How were they understood and used? Who engaged in their future? What were the visions and what was achieved? Three former industrial areas are examined from a historic perspective and with a critical hermeneutic approach: Koppardalen in Avesta, Sweden, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Britain, and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in the Ruhr district of Germany. Included in the results that challenge previous research, the study claims that the key figures were often newcomers to the place, and white-collar professionals, rather than former workers asserting a historic perspective from below on the basis of a crisis experience. In general, the study shows how the redundant industrial place became an arena for visions of the future in a local community, and, furthermore, how it was being turned into a commodity in a complex gentrification process. The place was given new value by being regarded as an expression of the overall phenomenon of reused industrial buildings, and, simultaneously, as a unique and authentic entity. In the conversion of the physical environment, the industrial past became relatively harmless to many people, because the dark and difficult aspects were defused in different ways. Instead, the industrial place was understood in terms of adventure, beauty and spectacle, which included rust from the past as well as hope for the future. / QC 20100910 industrial history history of technology cultural history industrial heritage hermeneutics museology Sweden Avesta Ironbridge Duisburg 20th century reuse place materiality authenticity History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria
18	Arbetslösa i rörelse : Organisationssträvanden och politisk kamp inom arbetslöshetsrörelsen i Sverige, 1920-34 Andreasson, Ulf January 2008 (has links) This doctoral thesis sets out to analyse the development of the unemployed movement in Sweden during the period 1920–34. The study is divided into two parts. The first is empirical and descriptive while the second is interpretive and explanatory, and seeks to examine why this phenomenon developed in the way it did. Mass unemployment in Sweden between the World Wars did not cause the same social tensions as in many other countries. This relative peace endured despite high and consistent unemployment and hard living conditions for the unemployed. These conditions served as sources for tensions present in the unemployed movement, and which some actors sought to take advantage of and even exacerbate. Andréasson argues that a major reason that society did not take a more radical turn in the period was that the reformist labour movement actively moderated these tensions. This was done by the Social Democratic Party (SAP) changing the environment of the unemployed organisations, for example by using local unemployment policy to polish off the rough edges of the national unemployment policy. More important was the crisis politics in the early 1930s that helped narrow the socio-economic gap between those who had and those who did not have a job. The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) neutralised the movement of the unemployed by introducing changes within the unemployed movement itself, involving a variety of strategies. After 1933, the LO and SAP dominated and were able to direct the activities of most of the organisations that existed. Gaining control over the unemployed was as important for the LO and SAP as being able to exert control over other forces that might threaten to weaken their long-term strategies and aims. There was a conviction within the unemployed movement that mass unemployment was largely a consequence of technological developments in production. This argument had roots dating back to the early stages of industrialism in England when Luddites had attacked production machinery. The coalition of organisations of unemployed workers in Sweden during the 1920s and 1930s did not seriously consider engaging in machine-breaking activities. The movement’s criticism of technology did not extend into the Swedish model which envisioned the development of machinery as a way to prevent rising unemployment. / QC 20100628 labour history political history history of technology unemployment unemployed movement labour market trade unions labour movement technology criticism crisis politics unemployment policy Great Depression Swedish model 20th Century History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria
19	Papper och lump : studier av kontinuitet och förändring i nordisk pappersindustri från 1600-tal till 1900-tal Sjunnesson, Helene January 2006 (has links) <p>. This thesis consists of an introduction and four previously published articles. The joint empirical focus is papermaking based on textile rags as fibre raw material. Furthermore the physical environment is central in the studies. The relationship between continuity and change is a prevailing theme. The thesis also pays attention to the use of different sorts of rags and to the connection between this kind of papermaking and the textile industry.</p><p>The overall purpose is to throw new light upon the paper industry based on rags – a part of early industry seldom mentioned in historical surveys of the industrialization process in Sweden. The aim is also to question the prevalent Swedish historical writing commissioned by the branch, characterized by set divisions between different phases of technical and industrial development, from simple craft to modern industry. One of these borderlines has been drawn between papermaking by hand and papermaking by machine, with the 1830s as the selected transition period. By studying and analysing changes in the traditional and seemingly static papermaking as well as the opposite: the traditional that has lingered in the new, this thesis shows that the course of events was much more complicated than that. An outcome of the studies is that the industrialization of the rag based paper industry has been a complex, uneven and prolonged process.</p><p>The first main part of the thesis consists of two Swedish regional studies centred on the province of Östergötland in a long-time perspective. The focus is mainly on the long continuity of papermaking by hand, which was carried out between 1628 and 1968. The study shows that a variety of types and sizes of mills regarding ownership, forms of production, location, paper qualities and techniques can be identified. Continuity was the dominating feature but within this framework technological and industrial change also took place.</p><p>The second main part of the thesis has a Nordic perspective and deals with a shorter period, mainly 1830-1870. One study examines the introduction of the paper-machine and the establishment of the first machine-made paper mills in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland with special attention given to the Swedish mill Holmen in Norrköping and the Finnish Tammerfors mill, both situated in textile mill towns. A second Nordic study surveys hand-made paper mills founded during and after the time when the paper-machine technology had been established. As the studies show, two parallel development tracks were prevalent in the paper industry in the Nordic countries during the period 1830-1870 – papermaking by machine and papermaking by hand.</p><p>The first paper machines were imported from Britain to some of the oldest and largest paper mills. The introduction of the new technology led to changes in for instance the paper mill buildings and the organization of work regarding the papermaking process. In the preparatory and finishing work manual methods remained, and as before it employed mostly women.</p><p>At the same time, papermaking by hand continued to change and new hand-made paper mills were founded until as late as the 1890s. The study discusses possible explanations, among them growing markets for special qualities and combinations with other branches of industry.</p><p>All the studies show a connection between hand-made paper mills and wool mills on one hand, and machine-made paper mills and cotton and linen mills on the other hand. The paper industry based on rags could in fact be characterized as a kind of textile industry</p> Industrial heritage studies history of technology industrial archaeology papermaking paper industry rags hand-made paper mills machine-made paper mills paper and textile 1830-1870 Sweden Denmark Finland Norway Östergötland Holmen Tammerfors long continuity periods of transition. History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria
20	Från föhn till feu! : Esrange och den norrländska rymdverksamhetens tillkomsthistoria från sekelskiftet 1900 till 1966 / From föhn to feu! : The history of Esrange and the Northern Swedish spaceactivity from the turn of the century 1900 until 1966 Backman, Fredrick January 2010 (has links) <p>This essay is about the origin, planning and establishment of the European Space Research Organisation's (ESRO) sounding rocket base Esrange outside Kiruna in Northern Sweden. Three main questions are examined. First I show there were not just scientific and technical but also political, economical as well as military reasons to build a European rocket base. Second, I scrutinize the reasons to choose Northern Sweden as the location for the rocket base. As it turns out, the main reasons were the favourable location of Northern Sweden within the aurora oval zone, the proximity of the Kiruna Geophysical Observatory, and the possibility to use a large, although not quite uninhabited, area where the launched rockets could crash. Finally, I examine the difficulty of talking about boundaries of various kinds, such as temporal, spatial and functional. The essay also provides a discussion on possible ways to continue research on this topic.</p> Esrange Kiruna space physics geophysics rocket engineering technology ESRO ESA northern lights aurora observatory research station Vassijaure Abisko STS history of science polar rocket base Esrange Kiruna Norrland rymdverksamhet rymdfysik geofysik raket teknologi samer ESRO ESA norrsken aurora borealis observatorium forskningsstation Vassijaure Abisko STS vetenskapsstudier vetenskapshistoria polarforskning norrskensforskning raketbas History of science Vetenskapshistoria History of science and ideas Idé- o lärdomshistoria History of technology Teknikhistoria History of technology and industry Teknik- och industrihistoria Technology and culture Teknik och kultur Other earth sciences Övrig geovetenskap Geophysics Geofysik Space engineering Rymdteknik Space physics Rymdfysik

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