Popular movement archive 1881-1950

In 1965 a research project on the history of Swedish popular movements was initiated at the Department of History, Uppsala University. The history of the people's movements was described based on the local associations and their functions. A main question was whether there is a particular type of society or environment where popular movements develop more easily. It became necessary to draw up a special code for the administrative division of Sweden. Before 1952 there were more than 2,500 municipalities, and over time several of them had changed their borders, new municipalities had come into existence, and old municipalities had been incorporated into the rapidly growing urban municipalities. A code system, GEOKOD, was created to take account of all such changes. It wasn't just the municipalities that changed. The organizations also changed, this applied to a particularly high degree to the trade unions. It had to become a research task to systematize the entire flora of associations in Sweden, mainly all the trade unions that arose, dissolved, or merged into one another. To map the spread of the major popular movements, information was collected on the number of members in each local association as of December 31 each year. The free church movement, the temperance movement, the trade union movement, and the social democratic party was included. The database contains data from over 4,000 trade union departments.1965年，乌普萨拉大学（Uppsala University）历史系启动了瑞典民众运动史研究项目。该项目以地方社团及其运作功能为依托，梳理民众运动的发展历程，核心研究议题之一为：是否存在某类特定的社会或环境，更易催生民众运动？ 为支撑此项研究，需针对瑞典行政区划制定专用编码体系。1952年以前，瑞典共设有超过2500个自治市；随着时间推移，部分自治市调整了辖区边界，新自治市陆续设立，旧自治市则被并入快速扩张的城市自治市。为此，研究团队开发了GEOKOD编码系统，以覆盖上述所有行政区划变更场景。 不止行政区划发生变动，各类社会组织亦历经更迭，其中工会组织的变化尤为显著。系统性梳理瑞典所有社团的发展脉络——主要涵盖兴起、解散或相互合并的各类工会——成为一项关键研究任务。 为绘制主要民众运动的空间分布图谱，研究团队收集了各地方社团截至每年12月31日的会员人数数据，覆盖自由教会运动、禁酒运动、工会运动及瑞典社会民主党。该数据库包含超过4000个工会分会的相关统计数据。