The aim of this essay is to see how the IOGT, local politicians and the local newspaper acted in the city of Hedemora in Sweden in connection with the referendum held in 1922 whether or not to ban the use of alcoholic beverages. To accomplish this I have examined protocols from local IOGT-groups, the town council and the local newspaper Södra Dalarnes tidning. I find that the local IOGT not only worked with the issue of alcohol but served as an institution that deepened democracy and education in the local community through discussions, study circles and applying pressure on local politicians. The locally elected bodies in turn were generally in favour of the good work the IOGT did, although not always overwhelmingly so. Many of the local politicians that handled the issues of alcohol were themselves active members in organisations promoting absolutism.

The purpose of this study is to find out how IOGT-NTO conducted the debate about the Swedish negotiations with EU concerning the accession. The essay investigates how the debate was conducted between the years 1993, 1994 and 1995. A further distinction lies in five requirements IOGT-NTO delivered before the negotiations.The material for this study lies primarily in the editorial pages of IOGT-NTO's magazine Accent. The background content comes primarily from secondary sources and deals with the temperance movement and IOGT-NTO, and dealing with the EU and the Swedish alcohol policy.In July 1991, Sweden submitted its membership application to EU and subsequently in the 1993 the negotiations began. During the same time IOGT-NTO began its debate on a possible EU membership in the Accent magazine.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how the temperance movement IOGT in Karlstadcampaigned for people to vote for a referendum on alcohol in 1922 and how it has been tackled bythe local press. To answer the purpose a qualitative text interpretation has been used from IOGT'smeetings protocols and the local press used are the two largest newspapers in Karlstad during thisperiod of time, Karlstads-Tidningen and Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. The type of examinationperformed is called interpretive case study where it has been used a theoretical basis. Thetheoretical point is Habermas Bourgeois publicity also been used by Lars Båtefalk in his thesisStaten, samhället och superiet. Can the temperance movement be said to take part of the publicsphere?The results show that IOGT during this period have grown large enough to be a part of the publicwhich Båtefalk mean was not the case around 1900.

The purpose of this study has been to investigate how the temperance movement IOGT in Karlstadcampaigned for people to vote for a referendum on alcohol in 1922 and how it has been tackled bythe local press. To answer the purpose a qualitative text interpretation has been used from IOGT'smeetings protocols and the local press used are the two largest newspapers in Karlstad during thisperiod of time, Karlstads-Tidningen and Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. The type of examinationperformed is called interpretive case study where it has been used a theoretical basis. Thetheoretical point is Habermas Bourgeois publicity also been used by Lars Båtefalk in his thesisStaten, samhället och superiet. Can the temperance movement be said to take part of the publicsphere?The results show that IOGT during this period have grown large enough to be a part of the publicwhich Båtefalk mean was not the case around 1900.

The aim of this thesis is to see if adult education have changed in educational association of the Swedish Labour Movement ABF, and the temperance movement IOGT/NBV. We have chosen to study five periods and analyse these after four ideal of education. These are the ideals of self-education, polytechnic education, neo-classic character-moulding education, and citizenship education. We have studied the reports of the activities of the organisations during the years and the writings of anniversary. The analysis shows that the two popular movements have gone from an adult education where the ideal of citizenship education to an ideal of neo-classic character-moulding education was dominating.

The Swedish governments goal for the public health is to operate for a society with good conditions to be healthy. Many people today are very conscious about their health, at the same time alcohol is a recurring element in many day-to-day situations. IOGT-NTO is an organization that is working towards making sobriety to be the rule rather than the exception. This work is linked together by the organizations communication, which is a vital part to be able to present a unified view outward. In order to do that, it is particularly important that there are common goals and strategies to work towards.

The essay deals with adult education from a local perspective more specifically that ofthe IOGT lodge Leon Garnbetta in Varberg. The material that has been used covers a limited period of time, which stretches from 1883 to 1926.This temperance lodge was founded in 1883 and is still active. The essay provides a historical survey of the temperance movement in Sweden and depicts the ideas behind adult educa­tion, but it also gives a more general historical account of the town of Varberg and its popu­lar movements.By studying handwritten records from the lodge it is possible to establish a picture of its work, activities, discussions, its striving for democracy, educational activities and the principles behind these and finally the lodge's own library which was started at an early stage. All these aspects are then treated in a historical and a political context..

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to describe and analyse the origin and development of the municipal library of Västervik. There have been four previous libraries and our examination starts in 1859 with the foundation of a parish library. The other forerunners were a working-class movement library and two libraries in the International Orders of Good Templars. Before the merger of the libraries there were discussions in the municipal council, among the working-class movement and in the IOGT.

This study contents a research of the Swedish temperance movements IOGT, NTO and TO:s adult education in Dalarna between 1921 and 1939. A theory that is used in this essay is the publicity theory of Jürgen Habermas. A theory in this essay is that the adult educational work of the temperance movements could bee seen as an alternative publicity because the courses that the temperance movement held in general contents a great part of the movements own literature, the participants in the courses held their own lectures to each other and it was mostly only members of the temperance movements who could join the courses. The main subject of the courses was history in literature, English, Esperanto, and knowledge about local democracy. Not many courses content the drinking issue in Sweden at this time, even thought a national referendum was held in the issue during the research period of this essay.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge en bild av tre lokala bibliotek, Degerfors sockenbibliotek, ett studiecirkelbibliotek tillhörande IOGT-logen Vindelns hopp, samt ABF-biblioteket i Granö, i nuvarande Vindelns kommun vid 1900-talets första decennier och deras bokbestånd sett i ljuset av den sociala och historiska kontext som de befann sig i. I denna kontext ingår de olika ideologier och diskurser som präglade de olika bibliotekstyper som de tre biblioteken representerade, men också de lokala förhållandena. Uppsatsens frågeställningar är: hur såg den sociala och historiska kontexten ut på ett nationellt plan? Hur såg den regionala och lokala kontexten ut? Och slutligen hur avspeglas dessa förhållanden i de tre undersökta bibliotekens bokbestånd? De tre biblioteken var lokaliserade i Vindelns kommun, tidigare Degerfors socken, i Västerbottens inland. De olika bibliotekstyperna som biblioteken representerar är sockenbiblioteket samt två former av studiecirkelbibliotek; det ena drivs av IOGT som är en del av nykterhetsrörelsen och det andra drivs av ABF, som är en del av arbetarrörelsen.

Det övergripande syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att undersöka nykterhetsrörelsens uppkomst och utveckling i Luleå kommun från 1841 och fram till och med 1922. Vi har dessutom studerat nykterhetsrörelsen utveckling både internationellt och nationellt. De frågeställningar som, utifrån syftet, har varit relevanta för oss i den här studien har varit följande: När och varför uppkom nykterhetsrörelsen och hur har den sedan utvecklats? Vilka arbetsmetoder använde sig nykterhetsrörelsen av för att sprida kunskap om alkoholismens negativa aspekter till Luleå kommuns befolkning? Vilka blev följderna av nykterhetsrörelsen arbete i Luleå kommun, när det gäller rekryteringen av nya medlemmar? Hur arbetade nykterhetsrörelsen för att påverka människorna i Luleå kommun vid omröstningen gällande spritförbudet år 1922? Metoder som kommit till användning för att kunna besvara de nyss nämnda frågeställningarna har varit både kvalitativa, genom studier av både litteratur och otryckta primärkällor, och kvantitativa. Resultatet av studien visar att nykterhetsrörelsen först utvecklades i USA och sedan spreds till Sverige och andra delar av världen.

Sprutbyte har varit ett kontroversiellt ämne för debatt och forskning sedan 1980-talet. Denna studie syftar till att belysa fyra ideella organisationers - Convictus, Svenska Brukarföreningen (SBF), IOGT-NTO och Riksförbundet Narkotikafritt Samhälle (RNS) - arbete i sprutbytesdebatten i Stockholm och på så sätt utvidga förståelsen för både debatten och hur den ideella sektorn möjligen kan vara en del av större social förändring. Vilken inställning organisationerna haft till sprutbyte och hur den inställningen är nära kopplad till organisationernas syn på narkotika i allmänt, hur organisationerna argumenterat för respektive mot sprutbyte och hur argumenten legitimerats samt hur organisationerna ser på sin roll i sprutbytesdebatten är frågor som behandlas i studien. Eftersom organisationerna anses agera utifrån olika verklighetsuppfattningar analyseras organisationernas argument och inställningar utifrån ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv. Empirin består av fyra intervjuer med organisationsrepresentanter och hemsidematerial.

Arbetet bygger på att de informationssystem som används idag men som blir allt äldre och därigenom inte klarar de krav som ställs på dem. Detta medför att informationssystemen måste migreras till modernare plattformar, då företagen dels inte klarar sig utan dess nuvarande funktionalitet och dels måste vidareutveckla systemen.Detta arbete tar upp olika sätt som detta kan genomföras på och vilka problem som kan komma att uppstå när detta sker. För att kunna undersöka detta så genomfördes ett antal migrationer. Språken som migrationen kommer att ske mellan är Visual Basic 6 och Visual Basic .net. Migrationerna kommer att ske med hjälp av ett migrationsverktyg, samt ett ramverk som i arbetet skräddarsys för just arbetets typ av migrationer.Det arbetet kommer fram till är att det sker problem vid användande av ett verktyg och även att det inte ger tillräckligt med respons på vad som gått snett under migrationerna..

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to describe the development of the most important libraries in Skövde, starting from 1830. We conclude our examination about 1940, when the municipal library has been active for almost ten years, and the libraries started by the temperance and working-class movements have been deposited at the municipal library. In order to explain this process we describe the development of the Swedish public library and its predecessors, such as reading societies and the popular national movements? libraries, as a background and comparison to the early libraries in Skövde.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to describe and analyse the development of the public and the study circle libraries in the district of Kolbäck during the period of 1913-1954. The factors important for the library development described in sub-questions are: financing, locality, staffing, stock of books, book-lending level and uniting district effects. I use a hermeneutic interpretation model of interaction between the parts and the wholes, between reasons and results. This research leans mainly upon material which is sent to be deposited in archives in Hallstahammar, Västerås and Grängesberg.