Historisk husesyn i folkhemmet : En undersökning av bostadssituationen för arbetare i mekaniska verkstäder i den tidiga efterkrigstidens Stockholm.

• Main Author: Olsson, Erik
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen 2018
• Subjects: Stockholm; folkhemmet; bostäder; 1940; trångboddhet; atlas copco; Economic History; Ekonomisk historia
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347248

This essay aims at investigating the housing conditions for workers in mechanical workshops in Stockholm during the early postwar period of 1946. These conditions are measured by spaciousness and by the sanitary levels, according to appurtenant theory. Lacking a census regarding the target population the essay uses data from a 1946 survey about housing conditions for 266 working class families, where the familiy man was employed in a mechanical workshop, in Stockholm during 1946. This data, of spaciousness and sanitary levels, is thereupon used as a representation for the target population, since the average income per year is found to be equal between the two populations. This representatation rests on the hypothesis of income per year as an important factor for a person’s housing condition.