2017 Volume 81 Issue 3 Pages 20-51
Svenska fattigvårdsförbundet is known as the influential pressure group which had played an important role in establishment of new poor law of 1918. Its activities for child welfare has also attracted attention because of its remarkable contribution to the development of child welfare in Sweden. But man has not sufficiently scrutinized for which purposes this organization was established or how and what kind of activities this organization had developed. In this article we try to grasp whole aspect of this organization through examining the problems this organization took and the activities that unfolded. In that way we want to elucidate which role Svenska fattigvårdsförbundet had played in the formation of the Swedish welfare state. In this part of this article we grasp what kind of activities this organization had unfolded mainly before enactment of new poor law.
