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

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

Magnus Torstensson
1995
1995

Abstract

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.

Abstract

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.

Social Movements

Labor Rights

Keywords

Class, Europe, Informal Learning

Theme

Popular Education; Adult Education; and Social Movement Learning