Publicerad den 13 maj 2024 av Leif Jacobsson Översättning till engelska: Andreas Lindahl Arne H. Eriksson was a director of TAM-Arkiv who had a solid background in the white-collar movement. He also conducted valuable research on the history of the white-collar movement and officials/civil servants alongside. Arne H. Eriksson took over as head of TAM-Arkiv in…
Ingrid Wahlund became TAM’s first female MD. During her time at TAM, the department was very expansive and lively. In 1989 Ingrid Wahlund was appointed head of the White-Collar movement’s Archive and Museum. A position she held until her death in 1994. Under her leadership, TAM developed on many levels. It became a well-respected institution…
Posted on 22 January 2024 by Leif Jacobsson This year marks the 40th anniversary of TAM’s founding! It’s been a long journey – congratulations! Below we can see the first page of the minutes with the original statutes, from October 1984. From the minutes we can read that it is a proposal for rules of…
Published on 26 December 2023 by Lars Carlén Anders Kjellberg has been a member of TAM-Arkiv’s research council for many years. He has solid knowledge of how the Swedish trade union movement is organized and makes comparisons with other countries. Among other things, he has often visited France for over 20 years to interview trade…
Published on December 11, 2023 by Leif Jacobsson This year’s Prize in Economic Sciences is the 55th since its inception in 1969. Before Claudia Goldin received this year’s prize, only two women had been awarded the prize hitherto. Goldin works at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States – a university with many Nobel…
Posted on October 16, 2023 by Leif Jacobsson What does it mean to work as an elected representative? In a book from 1990 entitled ”Arbeta med förtroende” (Eng. ”Working with Trust”), the first head of TAM-Arkiv, Thord Wallén, interviewed union representatives and ombudsmen. The book was part of TAM’s early ambition to draw attention to…
Translation from Swedish by Andreas Lindahl The voices of the unemployed are rarely heard. But in an interview book published by TAM in 1993, unemployed white-collar workers talk about their everyday lives. Today, when unemployment is rising again, it may be interesting to reflect on the experiences of the unemployed at a time when Sweden…
Published on September 19, 2023 by Lars-Erik Hansen Translation from Swedish by Andreas Lindahl During this year’s Swedish History Days in Umeå, a couple of lectures were held of great interest to anyone interested in Swedish industrialization in general and its connection to education in particular. Björn Hasselgren, from the Department of Economic History at…
Published on September 13, 2023 by Leif Jacobsson Translation from Swedish by Andreas Lindahl On September 12, 2023, Greater Stockholm Genealogy Society (Sw. Storstockholms Släktforskarförening) came on a study visit to TAM-Arkiv. The initiative had been taken by K G Sture Junér, who is vice chairman of the association. So, rightly, we at TAM did…
Posted on August 30, 2023 by Anna Lundkvist ”You can’t drive change haphazardly without a compass needle. It requires a consensus, common positions and a plan for why, what and how things should be done.” The quote can be found on the back cover of the newly published book ”Förändringsprocesser i förskolan” (Eng. ”Processes of…