Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer
Disputation EH - Susanne Berghofer
Den 28 november försvarade Susanne Berghofer framgångsrikt sin avhandling "När svensk tekoindustri konkurrensutsattes. Arbetsgivarorganisationer inför föränderliga marknadskontexter 1955–1995".
Opponent: Laura Ekholm, Helsingfors universitet
Handledare: Johan Svanberg, Fia Sundevall, Elin Åström Rudberg
Betygsnämnd:
Jacob Östberg, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet
Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet
Susanna Fellman, Avdelningen för ekonomisk historia, Göteborgs universitet
Yvonne Svanström (suppleant), Stockholms universitet
Ordförande: Rodney Edvinsson
Om avhandlingen taget ur abstract
This thesis examines how employers in the Swedish textile and clothing industry (TCI), through the perspective of their employer organisation, made sense of and how they responded to the significant transformations the industry underwent between 1955 and 1995. In 1950, the TCI sector employed nearly 114,000 people, accounting for approximately one in ten industrial workers in Sweden, spread across 1,600 factories. By 1995, these figures had drastically declined, leaving just over 10,000 employees and 300 factories. Simultaneously, imports of textiles and ready-made garments from newly industrialized, low-wage countries surged. This shift in the market was largely driven by post-war U.S. efforts to promote a liberalized Western market economy, expand foreign trade, and integrate former European colonies in Southeast Asia into the Western capitalist system.
