Expectations and a worthy, respectable position in society: means and aims of library work within the early labour movement in Sweden

The education and cultivation of the workers in Sweden was a question that engaged people from different social classes with varying social and political ideas in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century. Describes how Swedish labour organizations developed their own libraries as a means to educate workers and enable them to gain knowledge and social respectability in order to achieve a greater influence in society.