Lindman II Cabinet 1928–1930
Conservative minority cabinet under Arvid Lindman, formed after the 1928 general election and governing Sweden through the 1928 Collective Bargaining Agreements Act and the immediate onset of the global economic crisis triggered by the 1929 Wall Street crash.
The Lindman II Cabinet, headed by Arvid Lindman, governed Sweden from 1928 to 1930. It was a conservative minority government built around Allmänna valmansförbundet, the right-wing party that would later evolve into today’s Moderaterna, formed after the 1928 general election handed the Right an opening.
The cabinet’s tenure was framed by two macro-events. Domestically, the 1928 Collective Bargaining Agreements Act established the National Labour Court — a foundational element of the Swedish industrial-relations regime that the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement would later complete. Internationally, the 1929 Wall Street crash hit during Lindman’s premiership and set the stage for the depression-era cabinets that followed.
In opposition during this period, Per Albin Hansson delivered his Folkhemmet speech, laying out the metaphor that would organize Swedish political imagination for the next half-century. The Lindman II Cabinet itself fell in 1930 and was replaced by the Liberal-led Ekman II Cabinet.