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Arbetet

Arbetet (Swedish: The Labour) was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, from 1887 to 2000.

Arbetet
Founder(s)Axel Danielsson
Founded6 August 1887
Political alignmentSocial democrat
LanguageSwedish
Ceased publication30 September 2000
HeadquartersMalmö
CountrySweden
ISSN1400-2345
OCLC number477525534
Arbetet building

History and profile

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Arbetet was first published in Malmö on 6 August 1887.[1][2] Axel Danielsson was the founder[3][4] and served as the editor-in-chief of the paper between 1887 and 1889.[1] The paper had a social democrat leaning[1][5] and was officially affiliated with the Social Democratic Party.[6][7]

The target audience of Arbetet was not only Malmö workers, but also economically middle-class.[8] The paper described the food riots in Sweden in April 1917 as dignified and impressive.[9] Bengt Lidforss was among the contributors of Arbetet[10] who published articles about natural sciences, politics, philosophy and literature.[11]

The paper awarded the Let Live Award (Swedish: Låt leva-priset).[12] In 1981 the recipient of the award was Lech Walesa.[12]

Arbetet ceased publication on 30 September 2000 soon after it went bankrupt in August 2000.[2][13][14]

Editors-in-chief and staff

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As mentioned above the founding editor-in-chief of Arbetet was Axel Danielsson between 1887 and 1889.[1] In the 1910s Bengt Lidforss served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.[15] Another editor-in-chief was Allan Vougt who was succeeded by Gösta Netzén in 1944.[16][17] Netzén was in office until 1957.[16] Frans Nilsson was named as its editor-in-chief in 1961.[18] From 1980 to 1990 Lars Engqvist was its editor-in-chief.[19]

Fredrik Sterky worked as the business manager of Arbetet.[20]

Circulation

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Arbetet was the best-selling newspaper in Malmö in the 1930s selling more copies than the other Malmö papers Skånska Dagbladet and Sydsvenska Dagbladet.[21] However, its coverage of the Malmö households was less than 50% reducing its dominance in the region.[21] In addition, Sydsvenska Dagbladet managed to sell more copies than Arbetet from the mid-1950s.[21] When a social democratic news magazine entitled Ny Tid which was headquartered in Gothenburg folded in 1965, Arbetet acquired its circulation.[21]

In the 1980s Arbetet enjoyed high levels of circulation and readership.[2] In 1998 the paper sold 54,000 copies on weekdays and 58,000 copies on Sundays.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d A. T. Lane, ed. (1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6.
  2. ^ a b c "Leading Swede Labor Newspaper Closes". Associated Press. Stockholm. 30 September 2000. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. ^ Bertil Falk (28 October 2010). "Time Paradoxes in 19th-Century Swedish Science Fiction". Bewildering Stories. Archived from the original (Lecture) on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ^ Henrik Åström Elmersjö (2017). "Establishing an Ideologically Coherent History". Scandinavian Journal of History. 42 (2): 197. doi:10.1080/03468755.2016.1261445.
  5. ^ "Sweden". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. ^ Lennart Weibull (2003). "The Press Subsidy System in Sweden". In Nick Couldry; James Curran (eds.). Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7425-2385-2.
  7. ^ "Good Will Grows in Europe". The Rotarian. 120 (4): 49. April 1972. ISSN 0035-838X.
  8. ^ Sheri Berman (2009). The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and politics in the making of interwar Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-674-02084-9.
  9. ^ Jonas Harvard (2018). "Socialist communication strategies and the Spring of 1917". Scandinavian Journal of History. 44 (2): 182. doi:10.1080/03468755.2018.1500394.
  10. ^ David Dunér (2013). "Botaniska vandringar på Kullen. Om fältbotanikern Bengt Lidforss". In G Broberg; David Dunér (eds.). Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift. Vol. 2013. Lund University Publications. pp. 89–142.
  11. ^ Lennart Leopold (2001). Skönhetsdyrkare och socialdemokrat (PhD thesis). Lund University.
  12. ^ a b Klaus Misgeld (2010). "A Complicated Solidarity". IISH Research Paper. Amsterdam.
  13. ^ Gustav Peebles (2011). The Euro and Its Rivals: Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-253-00141-2.
  14. ^ Magnus Nilsson (2010). "From "Industrial" to "Colorful"". MIM Working Paper Series. 10 (2): 13.
  15. ^ Håkan Blomqvist (2017). "Socialist patriotism, racism and antisemitism in the early Swedish labour movement". Patterns of Prejudice. 51 (3–4): 332. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2017.1355498.
  16. ^ a b "K Gösta Netzén". Riksarkivet (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  17. ^ "Nordic authors. Gösta Netzén" (in Swedish). Project Runeberg. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  18. ^ Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden. Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4.
  19. ^ "The Swedish Government". Vips-Governments. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  20. ^ Donald J. Blake (1960). "Swedish trade unions and the social democratic party: The formative years". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 8 (1): 33. doi:10.1080/03585522.1960.10411421.
  21. ^ a b c d Karl Erik Gustafsson (1978). "The circulation spiral and the principle of household coverage". Scandinavian Economic History Review. 26 (1): 6–8. doi:10.1080/03585522.1978.10407893.
  22. ^ Stig Hadenius; Lennart Weibull (1999). "The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition" (PDF). Nordicom Review. 1 (1).
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