1928
Right bloc · L/MThe 'Cossack Election' and the birth of the Folkhem vision.
1928 infographic: Cossack Election, Folkhem Speech, Labour Court
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Highlights
- The 'Cossack Election': In the September general election, right-wing parties ran a fear campaign against socialism; Conservative Arvid Lindman won enough seats to form a government, replacing Liberal PM Carl Gustaf Ekman.
- Folkhem speech: On 18 January 1928, Social Democratic leader Per Albin Hansson introduced the concept of Folkhemmet — 'the People's Home' — in parliament, laying the ideological foundation for Sweden's future welfare state.
- Amsterdam Olympics: Sweden ranked 6th overall with 7 gold, 6 silver, and 12 bronze medals; wrestlers and figure skater Gillis Grafström were among the star performers.
Events in this year
1928 1928 Collective Bargaining Act The 1928 Kollektivavtalslag, passed under Arvid Lindman's Conservative cabinet, legally bound collective agreements between unions and employers and established the Swedish Labour Court (Arbetsdomstolen). Initial union opposition gave way to durable acceptance, and the act became the statutory bedrock on which the 1938 Saltsjöbaden Agreement would later build voluntary self-regulation of the Swedish labour market. Reform 1928 1928 Swedish General Election The September 1928 Andrakammarval returned Arvid Lindman's Conservatives to office in a minority cabinet, ending Carl Gustaf Ekman's centre-Liberal government. In the same year, opposition leader Per Albin Hansson delivered his Riksdag speech introducing folkhemmet — the "people's home" — as the programmatic frame that would carry the Social Democrats to power four years later and define the Swedish welfare state for half a century. Election 1928 Sweden's 1928 Olympic medal year In 1928 Sweden combined a large Amsterdam Summer Olympics medal haul with a strong St Moritz Winter Olympics performance, including golds for Gillis Grafström and Per-Erik Hedlund. Sports 1928-01-18 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. Culture