Arbetet

Arbetet
Founder(s) Axel Danielsson
Founded 6 August 1887
Political alignment Social democrat
Language Swedish
Ceased publication 30 September 2000
Headquarters Malmö

Arbetet (meaning Labor in English) was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, between 1887 and 2000.

History and profile

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 between 1887 and 1889.[1] The paper had a social democrat leaning[1][5] and had an official affiliation with the Social Democratic Party.[6][7]

The target audience of Arbetet was not only Malmö workers but also economically subordinate middle-class.[8] Bengt Lidforss was among the contributors of Arbetet.[9] He published articles about natural sciences and political, philosophical and literary issues.[10]

Frans Nilsson served as the editor-in-chief of Arbetet who assumed the post in 1961.[11] From 1980 to 1990 Lars Engqvist was the editor-in-chief.[12]

The paper awarded the Let Live Award (in Swedish Låt leva-priset).[13] In 1981 the recipient of the award was Lech Walesa.[13]

In the 1980s Arbetet enjoyed high levels of circulation and readership.[2] In 1998 the paper had a circulation of 54,000 copies on weekdays and 58,000 copies on Sundays.[14]

Arbetet ceased publication on 30 September 2000 soon after it went bankrupt in August 2000.[2][15][16]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Leading Swede Labor Newspaper Closes". Associated Press (Stockholm). 30 September 2000. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. Sabina Andrén (2008). "Malmö: Setting the scene" (PDF). Lund University. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. Bertil Falk (28 October 2010). "Time Paradoxes in 19th-Century Swedish Science Fiction". Bewildering Stories. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  5. "Sweden". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. Nick Couldry; James Curran (1 January 2003). Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7425-2385-2. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. "Good Will Grows in Europe". The Rotarian 120 (4). April 1972. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  8. Sheri Berman (30 June 2009). The Social Democratic Moment: ideas and politics in the making of interwar Europe. Harvard University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-674-02084-9. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. David Dunér (2013). "Botaniska vandringar på Kullen. Om fältbotanikern Bengt Lidforss". Lund University Publications. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  10. Lennart Leopold (2001). "Skönhetsdyrkare och socialdemokrat" (PhD Thesis). Gidlunds Förlag. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  11. Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  12. "The Swedish Government". Vips-Governments. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  13. 1 2 Klaus Misgeld (2010). "A Complicated Solidarity". IISH Research Paper (Amsterdam).
  14. Stig Hadenius; Lennart Weibull (1999). "The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition" (PDF). Nordicom Review 1 (1). Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  15. Gustav Peebles (14 June 2011). The Euro and Its Rivals: Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City. Indiana University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-253-00141-2. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  16. Magnus Nilsson (2010). "From "Industrial" to "Colorful"". MIM Working Paper Series 10 (2): 13. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
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