Lena Abrahamsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3535397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Abrahamsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrahamsson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAMSSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luleå University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2840-8510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mining work in transition: Experts’ predictions on changes and transformations for miners
This article examines how organizational and technological developers envision the future of miners’ work, given the green transition and ongoing technological development. The results are based on survey data from 44 experts across the EU and Australia. The results show that mining work will become more digitalized, automated, and remotely controlled, yet human presence will remain essential. Experts anticipate higher competence requirements, co…
Intersectional Gender Equality Challenges – A Review of Gender Equality Research Conducted in Fennoscandian Arctic Academia
Context-specific GE knowledge is essential for epistemic contribution, nuanced understanding, and practical GE work in the Arctic HEIs. However, there is a shortage of research regarding gender equality (GE) in these institutions. We explored GE in HEI, and conducted a review on the Scopus database focusing on GE research done in the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The aim is to explore the produced GE research in an HEI context c…
Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin
This article discusses how changes in male-dominated work are connected to changes in gender constructions in the workplaces. The discussion is based on results from research conducted 2001–2021, mainly qualitative empirical studies of mine work. Although the development of the mining industry will not be as technologically deterministic and rapid as the usual dystopian and utopian visions predict, our research shows that there has already been c…
Licensing acceptance in a mineral-rich welfare state: Critical reflections on the social license to operate in Sweden
Diversity of livelihoods and social sustainability in established mining communities
The challenges for any community that seeks to maintain a healthy and thriving social life around an operating mine have been considered at some length in research, but the picture is still far from complete. In order to pinpoint some of the gaps in research, the literature on social sustainability as applied to established mining communities in developed countries is here reviewed, and the general understanding of the social sustainability of su…
Omförhandling i gruvan: Om kön, arbete och förändring i den mansdominerade gruvnäringen
This article aims to discuss the complexity of stability and change in terms of the relation of gender and work in traditionally male-dominated workplaces, and more specifically in the Swedish mining industry. Mining has for a long time had a close relationship to men and masculinity. From the 1980s until 2005, the proportion of women miners increased from three to six per cent, but during the last ten years the proportion of women miners has inc…
Job Rotation Meets Gendered and Routine Work in Swedish Supermarkets
Swedish food retail trade employers are required to counteract the strain of checkout work through job rotation. As checkout work tends to be seen as a “women's job”, this makes the industry a potentially interesting site for negotiations within gendered organizations. Based on interviews with nine food retail trade managers, this study investigates how job rotation is incorporated into specific work organization models, focusing on the implicati…
Changing storylines and masculine bodies in Australian coal mining organizations
In this article we are exploring gendered subjectivity and workplace change in male dominated industrial organizations. The empirical base is a study of Australian coal mining companies implementin
Kön görs även i moderna organisationer
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Trainers and learners constructing a community of practice: Masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry
This article begins with the practical problem of the failure of training in safe work practices to result in changes to the rate of accident and injury in mining workplaces. A review of the literature in workplace training and workplace learning suggests that there has been little investigation of the relationship between how trainers train, and what learners learn in the workplace. Interviews and participant observation were carried out with 20…
Just när det blev viktigt blev det manligt
This article is about the dynamics of gender in workplaces that are undergoing changes in organization. More precisely it is about the instability in femininity and masculinity and the links between the construction of gender and the construction of the modern organizations. On a general level the traditional gender order is based on stability, that is to say that men and women are seen as very different, even as each other's antithesis, and with…
Licensing acceptance in a mineral-rich welfare state: Critical reflections on the social license to operate in Sweden
Diversity of livelihoods and social sustainability in established mining communities
The challenges for any community that seeks to maintain a healthy and thriving social life around an operating mine have been considered at some length in research, but the picture is still far from complete. In order to pinpoint some of the gaps in research, the literature on social sustainability as applied to established mining communities in developed countries is here reviewed, and the general understanding of the social sustainability of su…
Omförhandling i gruvan: Om kön, arbete och förändring i den mansdominerade gruvnäringen
This article aims to discuss the complexity of stability and change in terms of the relation of gender and work in traditionally male-dominated workplaces, and more specifically in the Swedish mining industry. Mining has for a long time had a close relationship to men and masculinity. From the 1980s until 2005, the proportion of women miners increased from three to six per cent, but during the last ten years the proportion of women miners has inc…
Changing storylines and masculine bodies in Australian coal mining organizations
In this article we are exploring gendered subjectivity and workplace change in male dominated industrial organizations. The empirical base is a study of Australian coal mining companies implementin
Trainers and learners constructing a community of practice: Masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry
This article begins with the practical problem of the failure of training in safe work practices to result in changes to the rate of accident and injury in mining workplaces. A review of the literature in workplace training and workplace learning suggests that there has been little investigation of the relationship between how trainers train, and what learners learn in the workplace. Interviews and participant observation were carried out with 20…
Job Rotation Meets Gendered and Routine Work in Swedish Supermarkets
Swedish food retail trade employers are required to counteract the strain of checkout work through job rotation. As checkout work tends to be seen as a “women's job”, this makes the industry a potentially interesting site for negotiations within gendered organizations. Based on interviews with nine food retail trade managers, this study investigates how job rotation is incorporated into specific work organization models, focusing on the implicati…
Just när det blev viktigt blev det manligt
This article is about the dynamics of gender in workplaces that are undergoing changes in organization. More precisely it is about the instability in femininity and masculinity and the links between the construction of gender and the construction of the modern organizations. On a general level the traditional gender order is based on stability, that is to say that men and women are seen as very different, even as each other's antithesis, and with…
Just när det blev viktigt blev det manligt
This article is about the dynamics of gender in workplaces that are undergoing changes in organization. More precisely it is about the instability in femininity and masculinity and the links between the construction of gender and the construction of the modern organizations. On a general level the traditional gender order is based on stability, that is to say that men and women are seen as very different, even as each other's antithesis, and with…
Trainers and learners constructing a community of practice: Masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry
This article begins with the practical problem of the failure of training in safe work practices to result in changes to the rate of accident and injury in mining workplaces. A review of the literature in workplace training and workplace learning suggests that there has been little investigation of the relationship between how trainers train, and what learners learn in the workplace. Interviews and participant observation were carried out with 20…
Kön görs även i moderna organisationer
Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Changing storylines and masculine bodies in Australian coal mining organizations
In this article we are exploring gendered subjectivity and workplace change in male dominated industrial organizations. The empirical base is a study of Australian coal mining companies implementin
Job Rotation Meets Gendered and Routine Work in Swedish Supermarkets
Swedish food retail trade employers are required to counteract the strain of checkout work through job rotation. As checkout work tends to be seen as a “women's job”, this makes the industry a potentially interesting site for negotiations within gendered organizations. Based on interviews with nine food retail trade managers, this study investigates how job rotation is incorporated into specific work organization models, focusing on the implicati…
Omförhandling i gruvan: Om kön, arbete och förändring i den mansdominerade gruvnäringen
This article aims to discuss the complexity of stability and change in terms of the relation of gender and work in traditionally male-dominated workplaces, and more specifically in the Swedish mining industry. Mining has for a long time had a close relationship to men and masculinity. From the 1980s until 2005, the proportion of women miners increased from three to six per cent, but during the last ten years the proportion of women miners has inc…
Diversity of livelihoods and social sustainability in established mining communities
The challenges for any community that seeks to maintain a healthy and thriving social life around an operating mine have been considered at some length in research, but the picture is still far from complete. In order to pinpoint some of the gaps in research, the literature on social sustainability as applied to established mining communities in developed countries is here reviewed, and the general understanding of the social sustainability of su…
Licensing acceptance in a mineral-rich welfare state: Critical reflections on the social license to operate in Sweden
Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin
This article discusses how changes in male-dominated work are connected to changes in gender constructions in the workplaces. The discussion is based on results from research conducted 2001–2021, mainly qualitative empirical studies of mine work. Although the development of the mining industry will not be as technologically deterministic and rapid as the usual dystopian and utopian visions predict, our research shows that there has already been c…
Intersectional Gender Equality Challenges – A Review of Gender Equality Research Conducted in Fennoscandian Arctic Academia
Context-specific GE knowledge is essential for epistemic contribution, nuanced understanding, and practical GE work in the Arctic HEIs. However, there is a shortage of research regarding gender equality (GE) in these institutions. We explored GE in HEI, and conducted a review on the Scopus database focusing on GE research done in the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The aim is to explore the produced GE research in an HEI context c…
Mining work in transition: Experts’ predictions on changes and transformations for miners
This article examines how organizational and technological developers envision the future of miners’ work, given the green transition and ongoing technological development. The results are based on survey data from 44 experts across the EU and Australia. The results show that mining work will become more digitalized, automated, and remotely controlled, yet human presence will remain essential. Experts anticipate higher competence requirements, co…
Political science (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Mining and Resource Management (3 works) · Social and Educational Sciences (3 works)