<p>This paper is a study with two different aspects, with a main focus of the match factory in Jönköping. The first aspect is about how the work situation for children looked like in the match factory during the 1900 - century. The children´s work history over time, the children’s workday and life situation on the factory and outside is described in this paper. The second aspect in this paper is about how the pupils learn about their local history in the 3 and 4 grade. Do the teachers learn their pupils about the factory or not when they study their local history. If they do not, what causes have the teachers mentioned. Answers are too found in this paper.</p><p>The material concerning the questions if the match factory used children as workers in their production have I received from a visit on the match factory museum and from an interview with the manager of the museum. The manager also helped me find the material and he gave some information where to find more material as well. An interview with teachers in third to fifth grade in schools in and around Jönköping was the main thing in the second material study. The interview contained questions about how the teachers teach their pupils about local history and if they use the match factory in Jönköping as a complement to the education.</p><p>The study showed a lot of different perspectives of how teachers in and around Jönköping have chosen to or not to involve the match factory in the teaching of the local history of Jönköping. The study also show that the environment for young children during this time was very harsh. They had to work almost as much as older people with the same burden but for just a third of the salary, all because of the factory owner´s will to earn as much money as possible.</p>

This paper is a study with two different aspects, with a main focus of the match factory in Jönköping. The first aspect is about how the work situation for children looked like in the match factory during the 1900 - century. The children´s work history over time, the children’s workday and life situation on the factory and outside is described in this paper. The second aspect in this paper is about how the pupils learn about their local history in the 3 and 4 grade. Do the teachers learn their pupils about the factory or not when they study their local history. If they do not, what causes have the teachers mentioned. Answers are too found in this paper. The material concerning the questions if the match factory used children as workers in their production have I received from a visit on the match factory museum and from an interview with the manager of the museum. The manager also helped me find the material and he gave some information where to find more material as well. An interview with teachers in third to fifth grade in schools in and around Jönköping was the main thing in the second material study. The interview contained questions about how the teachers teach their pupils about local history and if they use the match factory in Jönköping as a complement to the education. The study showed a lot of different perspectives of how teachers in and around Jönköping have chosen to or not to involve the match factory in the teaching of the local history of Jönköping. The study also show that the environment for young children during this time was very harsh. They had to work almost as much as older people with the same burden but for just a third of the salary, all because of the factory owner´s will to earn as much money as possible.

After being excluded from the Swedish Social Democrat party in 1917, the Revolutionary Socialists founded the Social Democrat Left Party. From this point onwards, the Social Democratic hegemony and dominant position within the Swedish workers movement and political landscape was challenged. This thesis aims to investigate the power struggles between these two parties, the Revolutionary Socialists and the Social Democrats, and their desire to influence control of the unions. Taking cues from earlier research calling for a more localized look at this struggle, this thesis turns to a case study of union matters of the the Factory Workers Union Local 84, at Västerviks Tändsticksfabrik, a match manufacturer and largest employer in the Swedish coastal town of Västervik from 1925 to 1930. Organizational material including meeting protocols, annual reports and member registration lists from the local political parties, cooperative union organizations (VFS) and Local 84 serve as secondary data sources. These documents were then analyzed through the methodological and theoretical framework of power resources. The findings from this study were extensive. However, first and foremost, the results show Local 84 to be dominated by members of the Swedish Communist Party (SKP) during the length of the study period. Interestingly, the material also indicates strong collaborative ties between Social Democrats and non-party workers on issues surrounding local condition and everyday issues. The everyday class struggle against the factory owners was very successful for the communist leadership, resulting in broad confidence among the workers, in turn strengthening the communist representative’s positions. Despite the claim that communists tended to resort to more conflict-laden measures, such as strikes or blockades, to achieve their demands, this study presents a different conclusion. The strategy of the communists in Local 84 was instead focused on collaboration beyond political boundaries in order to achieve their local and practical demands.