Men of Steel? The Masculinity of Metal Industry Workers in Finland after World War II

Turtiainen, Jussi; Väänänen, Ari

doi:10.1093/jsh/shs100

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“…Neither had different studies addressing only one of these characteristics observed results that could suggest a converging point. For instance, high levels of openness/intellect are associated with counter gender-stereotypical occupational choices,29 whereas high neuroticism, low extraversion and conscientiousness are linked to depression 30. Although occupational selection may affect our results, it is not possible to evaluate its magnitude from register-based data.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Because personality traits are important determinants of occupational choices29 as well susceptibility to depression,30 a competing explanation is that men selected into human services are more prone to develop mental illness to begin with,1 regardless of the emotional demands associated with their tasks. However, to the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have addressed the relationship between personality traits, occupational choices and susceptibility to depression.…”

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Human service work, gender and antidepressant use: a nationwide register-based 19-year follow-up of 752 683 women and men

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Human service work, gender and antidepressant use: a nationwide register-based 19-year follow-up of 752 683 women and men

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“…Risk-taking and unsafe behaviors in an organization is partly a result of how the culture is shaped, as demonstrated by earlier studies in an industrial manufacturing context (Brown et al, 2000;Canter, 1996;Turtiainen and Vaananen, 2012;Watson et al, 2005). Culture can, of course, contribute to either unsafe or safe behaviors in an organization.…”

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“…Some earlier studies on safety in a steel-manufacturing context have focused on behavior, attitudes, climate, or culture, with results indicating that culture can form a basis for unsafe attitudes and behavior (Brown et al, 2000;Canter, 1996;Turtiainen and Vaananen, 2012;Watson et al, 2005). Both negative and positive examples of safety culture are described in previous research.…”

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Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

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a b s t r a c tWorkers in the steel-manufacturing industry face many safety risks due to the nature of the job. How well safety procedures and regulations are followed within an organization is considered to be influenced by the reigning culture of the organization. The aim of this study was to investigate and describe safety culture and risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company in Sweden by exploring workers' experiences and perceptions of safety and risks. Ten focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 66 workers. In the interviews, the situation of safety at work was discussed in a semi-structured manner. The material was analyzed inductively using qualitative content analysis. The analysis resulted in a thorough description of safety culture and risk-taking at the company, based on the following five main categories: 1. Acceptance of risks, one simply has to accept the safety risks of the work environment, 2. Individual responsibility for safety, the responsibility for safe procedures rests to the largest extent on the individual, 3. Trade-off between productivity and safety, these are conflicting entities, wanting to produce as well as wanting to work safely, 4. Importance of communication, it is needed for safety actions to be effective, and 5. State-of-the-day and external conditions, an interplay between these factors affect risk-taking. In sociotechnical systems theory it is acknowledged that there are interactions between social and technical factors in organizations. The findings of this study are interpreted to be in line with a sociotechnical understanding of safety culture and risk-taking.

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“…This is understandable, as vocational education was not widely available before the 1950s and hence most professionals had learned their profession through apprenticeships (Leskinen, 2001). The ideal worker presented in the job advertisements was thus a skilled craftsman or a semi-skilled industrial worker (see also Turtiainen and Väänänen, 2012). If s/he was offered any benefits, it was usually an apartment or assistance in finding one.…”

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Transformation of the Finnish employee ideal in job advertisements from 1944 to 2009

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In this article we examine transformation of the Finnish employee ideal since the Second World War. Our qualitative analysis is based on the data of 490 job advertisements from 1944 to 2009, and follows the change in employee requirements during this period. Our results show that requirements for transferable, particularly interpersonal, skills increased considerably during the research period. While workmanship, diligence, competence and work experience were the most common employee requirements in the job advertisements of the 1940s and 1950s, employees today are required to possess qualities such as stress resilience, flexibility, productivity, inventiveness and the desire to learn new things. The qualities required of white-collar employees have increased in particular. We conclude that, unlike the post-war period, today the ideal employee is characterized by flexibility and interpersonal skills reflecting changes in the organization of work, work organizations and work culture.

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Men of Steel? The Masculinity of Metal Industry Workers in Finland after World War II

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Human service work, gender and antidepressant use: a nationwide register-based 19-year follow-up of 752 683 women and men

Human service work, gender and antidepressant use: a nationwide register-based 19-year follow-up of 752 683 women and men

Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

Transformation of the Finnish employee ideal in job advertisements from 1944 to 2009

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