Anti-Strikebreaker Protests and Collective Violence in Sweden, 1918-1939
On May 14, 1931, Swedish military forces opened fire and killed four striking pulp factory workers and one bystander during a demonstration in the municipality of Lunde, in the Ådalen district outside of Kramfors in northern Sweden. The killings sent shock waves through the Swedish labor movement an...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023
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| Online Access: | https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/f0f88a8d-7231-4575-85c1-a6dc7dd7220d https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08987-9_6 |
| Summary: | On May 14, 1931, Swedish military forces opened fire and killed four striking pulp factory workers and one bystander during a demonstration in the municipality of Lunde, in the Ådalen district outside of Kramfors in northern Sweden. The killings sent shock waves through the Swedish labor movement and significantly contributed to the Social democratic win in the general elections the next year. |
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