Labour's Memory. Digitization of annual and financial reports of blue-collar worker unions 1880-2020
Details
- Period: 2020-04-01 – 2024-12-31
- Budget: 12,207,000 SEK
- Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
- Type of funding: RJ Infrastructure for research
About the project
The project "Labour's Memory" aims to make materials from trade union organizations within the LO sphere widely accessible, covering the period from the 1880s to the present.
The project team will digitize activity reports and annual financial statements from local, regional (Uppland), national (Sweden), and international trade union organizations.
The digitized material will then be made searchable through indexing and computational linguistic search methods. The goal is to enable finding all occurrences of a word regardless of its inflection or spelling, which will enhance access, particularly to older texts. The material includes everything from handwritten, typewritten, and printed to digital activity reports and annual reports.
(https://www.arbark.se/sv/forskning/projekt/labours-memory-arbetarrorelsens-minne)