The Normal Working Day
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Researchers in economic history and labour history with reading proficiency in Swedish
- Scholars studying Nordic socio-economic conditions and working-hours issues
- Readers who need public-domain primary sources for topical excerpts
- Language learners interested in early twentieth-century European labour issues
Not a good fit for
- General readers with no Swedish and no translation support
- Professionals seeking practical methods of contemporary working-hours management
- Readers who prefer popular narrative or light reading
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and chapter titles to establish the author's basic framework for discussing the working-day question.
- Read alongside background materials on Swedish industrialization and the labour movement to reduce comprehension difficulties.
- Use keyword search tools to mark passages on working hours and conditions of production for topical notes.
- If the language proves difficult, read the introduction and conclusion first, then decide whether to study the central arguments in detail.
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About the author
Gustaf Fredrik Steffen (1864–1929) was a Swedish sociologist and writer whose work focused on social structure, migration, and labor issues. During his lifetime he took part in public debate through social-science writing, and his works show a markedly empirical bent, seeking to understand the changes of modern society in terms of social conditions and institutional arrangements. His representative work, Normalarbetsdagen, centers on the question of working hours, reflecting his sustained interest in the situation of laborers and the organization of work. As far as can be seen, Chinese translations of his works and biographical materials about him are rather limited, and publicly available information is scarce, making it difficult to describe in detail his education, posts, or specific social activities; the library holds only one of his works. Even so, the surviving clues suggest that he was concerned with how social structure shapes the labor and daily life of ordinary people, an orientation that gives his writing a certain significance in Swedish social science of his time.
