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Social democrat newspaper in Sweden (1887–2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arbetet (Swedish: The Labour) was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, from 1887 to 2000.
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]
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]
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]
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