En kampdiktare i folkhemmet
This article analyses how the working-class poet Stig Sjödin (1917-1993) thematizes, in his works, his role as a labour-movement poet. This is done though an investigation of his relationship to older agitational labour-movement songs. These songs constituted an important genre within Swedish working-class literature during the decades around the turn-of-the-century 1900. However, they belong to a different era than Sjödin’s poetry, and were shaped by different conditions. Therefore, a comparison can make visible what is historically specific about Sjödin’s oeuvre, especially regarding its (and modern Swedish working-class literature’s) relationship to the labour movement.