Liberalism and Trade Union Movement in Sweden in the Early 1880's

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  • 1880年代前半におけるスウェーデンの自由主義と労働組合運動
  • 1880ネンダイ ゼンハン ニ オケル スウェーデン ノ ジユウ シュギ ト

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Abstract

In the early 1880's, trade unions in Stockholm developped themselves with the close relation to various liberalist movements led by urban middle class. Stockholms traarbetareforening (The Stockholm woodworkers' Union) presents a typical example of these trade unions to us. It is important to understand that both the liberalists and the trade unionists shared some common ideology which underlay their personal and organizational relationships with each other. They wished orderly development of the society, self-disciplined and rational behaviour among workers, and the citizenship and suffrage to be entitled to workers so as to get the equal status with the other classes. But the middle class liberalists aimed at unifying the awkward working class into the modern capitalist society, while the trade unionists intended to emancipate themselves from employers' despotism. So clear differences appeared gradually between the liberal reformers and the trade unionists. The latter came to be attracted to social democracy instead. Social democratic movement led by Hjarmar Branting, which won the the support of the trade unionists in the late 1880's, was not revolutionary but parliamentalistic and revisionistic one. Branting insisted on the peaceful way to socialism. In order to know why such social democracy attracted trade unions, we should consider the close relationship between trade unions and various liberalist movements in the early 1880's.

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  • The Journal of Agrarian History

    The Journal of Agrarian History 31 (4), 21-40, 1989

    The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)

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