The Swedish Garden Workers Union (Swedish: Svenska trädgårdsarbetareförbundet) was a trade union garden workers in Sweden. The union was founded on December 29, 1906.[1] It was however disbanded in 1909.[2] The union was revived in 1918. Its first section were the Garden Workers of Stockholm.[3]
The union published Trädgårdsarbetaren ('The Garden Worker') between 1918 and 1920. A total of ten issues were published. John H. Johansson served as editor 1918-1919, Emil Erlandsson became editor in 1920. Between 1921 and 1924 the union published the monthly Svenska trädgårdsarbetaren.[4]
The union merged into the Farm Workers Union of Sweden in 1924.[3]
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- ^ Back, Pär-Erik. En klass i uppbrott; den fackliga lantarbetarrörelsens uppkomst och utveckling. Stockholm: Svenska lantarbetareförbundet, 1961. p. 247
- ^ Sundell, Åke. Patriarkalism och föreningsrätt: om produktion och facklig kamp inom handelsträdgårdsnäringen i Malmö med omnejd fram till 1936. Lund: Lund University Press, 1997. p. 14
- ^ a b Ståhl, Margareta. Vår enighets fana: ett sekel fackliga fanor. Stockholm: LO, 1998. p. 229
- ^ "Förteckning över i Sverige utgivna periodiska skrifter rörande trädgårdsodling" [List of periodicals published in Sweden concerning horticulture] (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-17.
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