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.

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The aim of this essay was to study how the religious congregation in the Swedish town Västervik, as a part of the Swedish state church, was publishing posts on their Facebook. By using the method qualitative text analysis and sorting all published posts on Svenska kyrkan i Västerviks Facebook page in 2020 into categories, it became possible to get a general picture of the material.The goal was also to understand the material that was posted on their Facebook page through socio-religious theories that argues that the Swedish state church has become a resource and a producer of services in the Swedish society. The ambition was also to see if the material published on Facebook could connect to what earlier studies had identified about churches and organizations on social media, and to what rapports say about the reducing members and the relationship between the youth and the church.The study of the essay shows that the congregation in Västervik is publishing material which indicates that they, as a part of the Swedish state church, is a resource and a producer of services. Not least because they have a lot of posts with non-theological content.The study also shows that the congregation uses their Facebook to create dialogue with their followers and members, and that they especially have a lot of posts with videos of their worship service online. This makes them available to members, and they do not seem to make a separation between the physical church and the church online. Furthermore, the study does not show that the congregation tries to attract nor keep members, but some posts are directly reaching out to youths, also from channels outside Facebook. This makes it possible to think that they want to improve their relationship between the church and the youths. Something that in the long run could benefit the amount of members in the congregation.