Disputation i historia
Mark Magnuson försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i historia, "A Swedish dilemma. Aging populations during the search for a national insurance, 1884-1913"
Nedan följer en kort beskrivning av innehållet (ur baksidestexten):
”Translating non-wage labor into a monetary pension continues to affect reproductive women, small proprietors and immigrants adversely. This challenge has its roots from over a century ago, as the Elderly Insurance Committee attempted to integrate Swedish non-wage smallholders within the actuarial sciences. The large number of smallholders in 1900 presented the state with a dilemma that ultimately steered Sweden away from a workers insurance and towards a universal pension system. This book presents new insight on regional variations in rural nineteenth century elderly households that lay behind that dilemma, providing a more nuanced description of “traditional.” This study raises the regional role that ownership played in limiting the collective cost of elderly impoverishment, as well as adaptations in life-cycle strategies between mobile adult-children and their sedentary smallholding parents. I present this adaption not as isolated to households and families but as interconnected with a growing national communications and financial network. Innovative postal services, such as postal banks and mail order, assisted networks of solidarity, first with families as remittances and then as handlers of Sweden’s first pension checks.”
Händelsen är öppen för allmänheten
Medverkande
- Klas Nyberg, professor, opponent, Stockholms universitet
- Maths Isacson, professor, betygsnämnd, Uppsala universitet
- Ulla Rosén, professor, betygsnämnd, Linné universitetet
- Eva Svensson, professor, betygsnämnd, Karlstads universitet
Upplysningar
- Katarina Ålander, fakultetsadministratör
Telefon: 054-700 1318
E-post: katarina.ålander@kau.se