{{Short description|Social democrat newspaper in Sweden (1887–2000)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | logo = | image = | caption = | type = | format = | owners = | founder = Axel Danielsson | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = | founded = 6 August 1887 | political_position = Social democrat | language = [[Swedish language|Swedish]] | ceased_publication = 30 September 2000 | headquarters = [[Malmö]] | circulation = | publishing_country = Sweden | ISSN = 1400-2345 | oclc = 477525534 }} [[File:Arbetethuset.jpg|thumb|Arbetet building]] '''''Arbetet''''' ({{langx|sv|The Labour}}) was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, from 1887 to 2000.
==History and profile== ''Arbetet'' was first published in Malmö on 6 August 1887.<ref name=atl>{{cite book|editor=A. T. Lane|year=1995|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VlR8YCE8lkQC&pg=PA242|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26456-6 |page=242|location=Westport, CT; London}}</ref><ref name=apress/> [[Axel Danielsson]] was the founder<ref>{{cite web|author=Bertil Falk |title=Time Paradoxes in 19th-Century Swedish Science Fiction|url=http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue414/time_paradoxes.html|format=Lecture |publisher=Bewildering Stories|access-date=20 December 2014|date=28 October 2010|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083943/http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue414/time_paradoxes.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Henrik Åström Elmersjö|title=Establishing an Ideologically Coherent History|doi=10.1080/03468755.2016.1261445|journal=[[Scandinavian Journal of History]]|year=2017|volume=42|issue=2|page=197|url=https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-109395 }}</ref> and served as the [[editor-in-chief]] of the paper between 1887 and 1889.<ref name=atl/> The paper had a social democrat leaning<ref name=atl/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sweden|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/472058/Post-och-Inrikes-Tidningar}}</ref> and was officially affiliated with the [[Social Democratic Party of Sweden|Social Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Nick Couldry|editor2=James Curran|title=Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World|year=2003|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiFY59xGHBkC&pg=PA100|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-2385-2|page=100|location=Lanham, MD|author=Lennart Weibull|chapter=The Press Subsidy System in Sweden}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Good Will Grows in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49|journal=The Rotarian|date=April 1972 |volume=120|issue=4|page=49|issn=0035-838X}}</ref>
The target audience of ''Arbetet'' was not only Malmö workers, but also economically [[middle-class]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sheri Berman |authorlink=Sheri Berman|title=The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and politics in the making of interwar Europe|location=Cambridge, MA |year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfy1dJoCkDIC&pg=PA59|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|isbn=978-0-674-02084-9|page=59}}</ref> The paper described the food riots in Sweden in April 1917 as dignified and impressive.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Jonas Harvard |title=Socialist communication strategies and the Spring of 1917|journal=[[Scandinavian Journal of History]]|volume=44|issue=2|year=2018 |doi=10.1080/03468755.2018.1500394|page=182|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[Bengt Lidforss]] was among the contributors of ''Arbetet''<ref>{{cite book|author=David Dunér|title=Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift|volume=2013|chapter=Botaniska vandringar på Kullen. Om fältbotanikern Bengt Lidforss|publisher=Lund University Publications|editor1=G Broberg|url=https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/4196155|editor2=David Dunér|year=2013|pages=89–142}}</ref> who published articles about natural sciences, politics, philosophy and literature.<ref>{{cite thesis |author=Lennart Leopold|title=Skönhetsdyrkare och socialdemokrat|url=https://hkr.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:240723/FULLTEXT01|location=[[Lund University]]|degree=PhD|year=2001}}</ref>
The paper awarded the Let Live Award (Swedish: ''Låt leva-priset'').<ref name=klaus>{{cite journal|author=Klaus Misgeld|title=A Complicated Solidarity|journal=IISH Research Paper|year=2010|location=Amsterdam}}</ref> In 1981 the recipient of the award was [[Lech Wałęsa]].<ref name=klaus/>
''Arbetet'' ceased publication on 30 September 2000 soon after it went [[Bankruptcy|bankrupt]] in August 2000.<ref name=apress>{{cite news |title=Leading Swede Labor Newspaper Closes|url=https://apnews.com/9828abe69730d1df15f8e71497c113ea|access-date=20 December 2014|work=[[Associated Press]]|date=30 September 2000|location=Stockholm}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gustav Peebles|title=The Euro and Its Rivals: Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKiM1ynXsDwC&pg=PA137|year=2011|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-00141-2|page=137|location=Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Magnus Nilsson |title=From "Industrial" to "Colorful"|journal=MIM Working Paper Series|year=2010|volume=10|issue=2|page=13|url=http://mau.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1409884&dswid=9858}}</ref>
===Editors-in-chief and staff=== As mentioned above the founding editor-in-chief of ''Arbetet'' was Axel Danielsson between 1887 and 1889.<ref name=atl/> In the 1910s [[Bengt Lidforss]] served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Socialist patriotism, racism and antisemitism in the early Swedish labour movement|journal=[[Patterns of Prejudice]]|year=2017|volume=51|issue=3–4|page=332|doi=10.1080/0031322X.2017.1355498|author=Håkan Blomqvist}}</ref> Another editor-in-chief was [[Allan Vougt]] who was succeeded by [[Gösta Netzén]] in 1944.<ref name=riks>{{cite web|title=K Gösta Netzén|website=Riksarkivet|access-date=26 July 2023|language=sv|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Mobil/Artikel/8860}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nordic authors. Gösta Netzén|language=sv|url=https://runeberg.org/authors/netzengo.html|publisher=Project Runeberg|access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref> Netzén was in office until 1957.<ref name=riks/> Frans Nilsson was named as its editor-in-chief in 1961.<ref>{{cite book|year=2010 |author1=Karl Erik Gustafsson|author2=Per Rydén|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MmQPKQEACAAJ|title=A History of the Press in Sweden |publisher=Nordicom|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-86523-08-4}}</ref> From 1980 to 1990 [[Lars Engqvist]] was its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Swedish Government|work=Vips-Governments|url=http://vipsgov.chez.com/sweden.htm|access-date=20 December 2014}}</ref>
[[Fredrik Sterky]] worked as the business manager of ''Arbetet''.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Donald J. Blake|title=Swedish trade unions and the social democratic party: The formative years|doi=10.1080/03585522.1960.10411421|journal=Scandinavian Economic History Review|year=1960|issue=1 |volume=8|page=33|doi-access=free}}</ref>
===Circulation=== ''Arbetet'' was the best-selling newspaper in Malmö in the 1930s selling more copies than the other Malmö papers ''[[Skånska Dagbladet]]'' and ''[[Sydsvenskan|Sydsvenska Dagbladet]]''.<ref name=keg78>{{cite journal|author=Karl Erik Gustafsson|title=The circulation spiral and the principle of household coverage|journal=Scandinavian Economic History Review|year=1978|volume=26|doi=10.1080/03585522.1978.10407893|issue=1 |pages=6–8|doi-access=free}}</ref> However, its coverage of the Malmö households was less than 50% reducing its dominance in the region.<ref name=keg78/> In addition, ''Sydsvenska Dagbladet'' managed to sell more copies than ''Arbetet'' from the mid-1950s.<ref name=keg78/> When a social democratic news magazine entitled ''[[Ny Tid (Gothenburg)|Ny Tid]]'' which was headquartered in Gothenburg folded in 1965, ''Arbetet'' acquired its circulation.<ref name=keg78/>
In the 1980s ''Arbetet'' enjoyed high levels of circulation and readership.<ref name=apress/> In 1998 the paper sold 54,000 copies on weekdays and 58,000 copies on Sundays.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Stig Hadenius|author2=Lennart Weibull|title=The Swedish Newspaper System in the Late 1990s. Tradition and Transition|journal=Nordicom Review|year=1999|volume=1|issue=1|url=https://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/31_hadenius-weibull.pdf}}</ref>
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