Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Johan Pries

Johan Pries

Biträdande universitetslektor

Johan Pries

Red outposts in a hostile landscape: People's houses, People's parks and the reconstruction of rural southern Sweden's political geography, 1889–1909

Författare

  • Johan Pries
  • Erik Jönsson
  • Don Mitchell

Summary, in English

Organizing rural workers has always proved to be a challenge for the labour movement. This was especially the case in Scandinavia where well into the industrial era, labour and property relations in the agricultural countryside remained essentially feudal in character. Nonetheless, and especially in the rich agricultural districts of the southernmost province of Skåne, the Swedish labour movement had succeeded spectacularly by the interwar years. Perhaps unintuitively, a key to its success was that it focused as much money and energy on constructing new spaces of culture and leisure – so-called People's Houses and People's Parks – as it did to direct workplace organizing. Drawing on Kevin Cox's concepts of “spaces of dependence” and “spaces of engagement,” this paper explains how and why Sweden's labour unions succeeded in remaking Skåne's political geography and transformed the region into one of the strongest social-democratic districts in early-twentieth century Sweden.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Political Geography

Volym

99

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Human Geography
  • History

Nyckelord

  • scale
  • labor unions
  • social democracy
  • labor movement
  • socialism
  • rural
  • rurality
  • translocal mobilisations
  • Social movement
  • political geography
  • popular movements

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Prefigurative platforms, public spaces, and planning phenomena: exploring the historical geographies of Swedish People’s Parks

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1873-5096