Lort-Sverige (fwd)

Tapio Onnela (taonnela@utu.fi)
Sun, 04 Jun 1995 21:53:15 +0300 (EET DST)


Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 21:53:15 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Tapio Onnela <taonnela@utu.fi>
To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi
Subject: Lort-Sverige (fwd)

Projekti Runeberg jatkaa kiinnostavia julkaisujaan uhkaavasta tekijanoikeuspidennyksesta huolimatta. Tassa kiinostava julkaisu "lorttiruotsista" vahan tunnetusta Ruotsin 1930-luvusta, (tai ainakin minulle on aina ollut yllatys tormata tietohin siita miten Ruotsi on oikeastaan ollut myoskin aika lyhyen aikaa "hyvinvointivaltio":

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 05:32:36 +0200 From: Lars Aronsson <aronsson@lysator.liu.se> To: Project Runeberg and friends <runeberg-list@lysator.liu.se> Subject: Lort-Sverige

Ludvig "Lubbe" Nordstrom's "Lort-Sverige" is now scanned, and the first two and a half chapters are proofread. All of it is available by WWW. The author died in 1942, so this is a text I just had to publish now.

In April 1938, Ludvig Nordstrom set out on a journey through Sweden with a car, driver, and a recorder gramophone. His mission was to make a report series for Swedish national public radio, to research the state of Swedish countryside housing and its effects on health and social life.

What he found was Dirt-Sweden (Lort-Sverige), a nation of starving farm workers, who lived ten persons in one or two rooms, in small, half-rotten houses, full of bugs. And he also found a new nation of industry workers, who had built their own homes according to new ideas, with a basement, with hot running water, and a shower.

The radio report series was broadcast in 1938, and was replayed 50 years later, in 1988, when I heard it. The book was printed the same year. It reprints the interviews, and gives further background. In these times, radio played a great role in informing people, living in isolated places, about new inventions and better ways of life. Ludvig Nordstrom is not just reporting, but plays an active role: he hates all that is old and inefficient, and loves the new rational methods, often inspired from the USA.

The language of this text is Swedish. The book is 430 pages, the e-text is approx 700 kbytes. It contains 78 drawings made by the author.

(Someone should journey Sweden today, and inspect all the inefficient and non-standard computer networks out there, and write a book on Netlag-Sweden.)

Lars Aronsson.

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