Folkhemmet
Folkhemmet, the "people's home", was the Social Democratic metaphor Per Albin Hansson developed in 1928 and later used to frame Sweden's welfare-state expansion as a national household built on equality and mutual obligation.
Folkhemmet is the Swedish Social Democratic image of the country as a shared home. Per Albin Hansson developed the metaphor in the Riksdag on 18 January 1928, arguing that the good home is marked by equality, care, cooperation and the absence of privileged insiders.
The phrase became more than a slogan after 1932, when Social Democratic governments began turning depression policy, welfare expansion and labour-market compromise into durable institutions. It connects the 1928 speech to reforms such as 1933 Crisis Agreement (Kohandeln), National Basic Pension and Child Allowance 1947, ATP Supplementary Pension Reform 1959 and Million Programme 1965.
This page tracks those links rather than offering a full intellectual history. Deeper coverage would need parliamentary primary records and scholarship on how folkhemmet changed meaning across the twentieth century.