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    HON ÄR EN JOBBIG TJEJ: Om könshierarkier på ett svenskt startupföretag
    (2022-08-24) Britschgi, Julia; University of Gothenburg/School of Global Studies; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier
    Startup companies and their company culture influenced by Silicon Valley tech companies are becoming more and more popular. This paper aims to see how a startup company like this, that prioritise a flat organization, benefits such as ping pong tables and free beer as well as striving towards diversity, perceive gender hierarchies. The paper investigates the experience of women working in a Swedish startup company as well as how gender hierarchies and gender roles reproduce within the organisation and how these relate to the idea of a flat organisation that has a diverse and open company culture. It is a qualitative study based on an ethnographic field work in a Swedish startup company. In studying this issue the paper shows that women experience obstacles within the organisation and that gender hierarchies and gender roles are being reproduced through ideas about female and male coded knowledge, behaviours, and characteristics. The conclusions have been reached through analysing the material with the theory of performativity as well as three papers with concepts relating to masculine management styles, dualisms between gender roles and the reproduction of gender hierarchies and male norms within organisations. The study is made with qualitative methods, both participant observation but mainly semi-structured interviews conducted with employees and managers.
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    NÖDVÄNDIGT, OMÖJLIGT OCH MENINGSFULLT. Om att arbeta med kulturtidskrifter
    (2024-12-04) Britschgi, Julia; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    This master thesis deals with the working conditions and work motivators for editors of cultural journals in Sweden. Through the qualitative method of semi-structured interviews with editors of cultural journals this thesis will explore how the job is experienced through the conditions of running a cultural company. The demanding task of providing economic stability can make the pay low and the workload heavy. In connection to this, the thesis will explore why the editors still find it rewarding and what motivates them to work with culturaljournals. The motivations are partly related to self-realisation, such as being creative, working with one’s passion and having autonomy. At the same time, many editors also consider contributing to cultural life and society as a motivator. These motivations will be discussed in relation to the context cultural journals exists in, using theories by Gramsci, Laclau and Mouffe. This will also be seen in opposition, or resistance to, the rational, utility maximising homo economicus. Through using Bourdieu’s framework, the field specifics of being an actor in the cultural field will be discussed. His framework will also be used to examine how the workers are experiencing having limited economic capital but at the same time are having cultural capital. The differences between cultural and profit seeking companies will be further discussed, in relation to marketing, value creation and how employment relationships work. Regarding the economic conditions, it differs because it is partly governed by state funding. This makes the cultural journals vulnerable to political shifts. Because of this, cultural policy and politics will be discussed in relationship to cultural journals.