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    En studie av ungdomars och anställdas syn på arbete i två kommuner i Dalarna
    (Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2003) Hedlund, Ann; Åteg, Mattias; Sconfienza, Carolina; Andersson, Ing-Marie; Rosén, Gunnar
    A study of youths and employees opinions on work in two municipalities in Dalarna During the second half of the 1980:s attention was drawn to the difficulties for the industry to recruite youths. The difficulties to recruite had been made worse partly as a result of the decreasing batch of youths, partly of youths negative attitudes towards industrial work. When the state of the market turned to increased prosperity during the second half of the 1990:s, the difficulties in recruiting returned to the agenda. The primary purpose of the study provides a data foundation for discussions in a development project aimed at increasing the attractiveness of manufacturing industry as a workplace. Other purposes concerns youths and employees opinions on ideal work and on industrial work. The study was turned towards youths in the ninth grade and to employees in small engineering workshops and in loghouse firms. The study was delimited to the municipalities Avesta and Rättvik in Dalarna, Sweden. The youths had higher estimates than the employees in both ideal and industrial work. The working environment, including physical, social and working organisational aspects, is the one aspect that the youths has put forward as most important for the firms to improve. Improvement in the working environment may be a suitable strategy to increase the interest for manufacturing and industrial work. A result of the study is that the environment and the treatment that youths experience in the contact with industry firms, e.g. by practical occupational experience, educational visits etc., has great importance for the youths opinion on work within the manufacturing industry.