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Per Albin Hansson's Folkhem speech

On 18 January 1928 Per Albin Hansson used the Riksdag remissdebatt to develop the folkhemmet metaphor, one of the central public-language frames of Swedish social democracy.

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culture
Date
1928-01-18

On 18 January 1928 Per Albin Hansson spoke in the Riksdag’s second chamber and developed the folkhemmet metaphor.

The event is ranked as cultural and public-political language: not a law, but a durable frame for welfare-state legitimacy and Swedish Social Democratic identity.

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