Birger Simonson
About Birger Simonson
At present, Birger Simonson holds the position as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. He is leave of absence until 2018 06 30
Background PhD in history 1985, Associate professor 1991 and Professor 2001 Thesis: Social Democrazy and the Gain of Power: SAP:s Political strategy 1889-1911. Head of Centre for Work Science 2000-2001. Head of department at the Department of Work Science 2001-2006. In charge of PhD-studies at the same department from 2006.
Research I have been studying the development of strategies for gaining or maintaining power in the Swedish Social Democratic Party before WW1 and in the Swedish trade union movement after WW2. Another area of interest is the integration of immigrants in society, especially in the labour market.
Current research Solidarity: Ideology and Practice in a Worker-Owned enterprise
Teaching Ground level: Labour markets in a national and international context Advanced level: Gender and labour markets PhD-level: The Classics of Work Science and The Disciplines of Work Science
Cooperation Evaluation of huge projects for integration on the labour market 2001-2004 (Storstadssatsningen) Chair of the research body in TAM (white collar union´s archive and library) Lectures on youth unemployment for local governments 2011
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Solidaritet: Ideologi och praktik i Andelsföreningen Bohusläns Kooperativa Stenindustri ekonomisk förening
(ABKS)
Birger Simonson
Solidaritetens många ansikten - 2012 -
Forskarutbildningen - ett led i scientific
management?
Birger Simonson
2008 -
Klas Levinson och Jan Wallenberg Medbestämmande i det nya arbetslivet: Forskare analyserar och diskuterar inflytande i
arbetslivet
Birger Simonson
Arbetsmarknad och arbetsliv - 2008 -
Perspektiv på arbetsvetenskapens
klassiker
Birger Simonson
2008 -
Behöver arbetslinjen inte
forskning?
L. Abrahamsson, Bengt Furåker, Anita Göransson, L Gonäs, B Hagström, Bernd Hofmaier, Jan Holmer, Annika Härenstam, K Isaksson, J Johansson, Roland Kadefors, J Ch Karlsson, Birger Simonson, E Sundin
Svenska Dagbladet Brännpunkt (debattinlägg) - 2007 -
Framtidsperspektiv för
arbetsvetenskapen
Birger Simonson
Forskning om arbete, red Jan Holmer & Birger Simonson - 2006 -
Forskning om
arbete
Jan Holmer, Birger Simonson
2006 -
Samverkan för sysselsättning och
egenförsörjning
Birger Simonson, Åke Kihlström
2004 -
Social Democracy and Agriculture: Some
Conclusions
Birger Simonson
Urban Radicals, Rural Allies: Social Democracy and the Agrarian Issue, 1870-1914, eds. Aad Blok, Keith Hitchins, Raymond Markey and Birger Simonson - 2002 -
Social Democracy and the Peasants in Sweden before World War
I
Birger Simonson
Urban Radicals, Rural Allies: Social Democracy and the Agrarian Issue, 1870-1914, eds. Aad Blok, Keith Hitchins, Raymond Markey and Birger Simonson - 2002