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the "egna hem" ("oavn home") movement. 691
situated in the depths of the country, far remote from the densely
populated districts, it became an urgent necessity for the employers to provide
dwellings for their workpeople. Nor has the problem proved difficult
of solution: building material was cheap, working expenses moderate, and
the ground was the establishment’s own.
Even in our days these country industrial establishments are still
numerous and exercise a profound social influence. It is gratifying to
note that the grand old traditions represented by their workmen’s
dwellings built in the sterling fashion of former days are likely not to
be abandoned under modern conditions. Many of these industrial works
display a keen interest in catering for the needs of their workmen in the
matter of dwellings, and a keen interest in the "egna hem" movement
as a mean to this end. The economic staying power which is usually to
be found at the back of these "egna hem" enterprises afford opportunüy
for testing various expedients, beyond the scope of individual persons with
slender resources.
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Cottage at Enskede, Stockholm.
The following are important "egna hem" establishments of the kind
referred to, some of them really model institutions: Huskvarna and
Limhamn of earlier date; and, among more modern establishments, those at
the several factories of the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslag, at Sandviken, at
Grängesberg, Malmberget, and Kiruna mines, at the Åtvidaberg factories
in Östergötland, and at the Jonsered factories in the vicinity of
Gothenburg.
The aims and endeavours touched upon in the foregoing pages are,
however, but a symptom of the ever-growing interest that people in Sweden
have in recent years, from various points of view, economic, social, and
hygienic, been focussing on the housing problem as a whole, in its relation
to the poorer classes.
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