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A global approach to feminist labour history adds new contents and insights. Our intention with this overview of available sources at the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) is to inspire researchers, both academics and those actively interested in researching their own history, to look beyond national borders.

Worlds of Women in ARAB’s Collections – A Short Introduction


Clara Zetkin has sent letters sent both to the Social Democratic women’s organization and to leading Social Democrats in Sweden. There are only a handful of letters, but those to the representatives of the women’s organization tell a lot about the character of and conditions for women’s international work. Networking with men from the movement was often essential for women in order to develop their own organizations and groups and Zetkin’s letters to male leaders of the labour movement illustrate this.

Letters from Clara Zetkin



Political tourism in a very broad sense has been important for the Swedish labour movement from the very beginning. Political tourism among women in the Swedish labour movement changed from journeys to the modern Soviet Union during the 1920s, to the war-stricken countries to help their sisters in need, and twenty years later to the Global South in order to support women’s projects in Africa and Asia.

Tales of Modernity, Peace, and Solidarity – Women’s Travelogues







När Andra internationalen håller sin kongress i Amsterdam 1904 är det tydligt att frågan om imperialismen är på väg att bli en allt hetare potatis för medlemspartierna.

Något om imperialism och arbetarrörelse