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By Robert S. Newman "Bob Newman" (Marblehead, Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Sweden: The Middle Way (Paperback)
Many years ago, I bought this volume in a college bookstore, thinking it would help me understand more about Sweden, one of those countries that you think you know, but actually don't. That was during the height of the cold war, around the time when Kennedy and Khrushchov faced off over the Cuban missile crisis. So you know I ain't whistlin' Dixie when I say it was some time back. Even then, I assumed, without too much leafing through while standing in the store, that the title referred to Sweden's socialistic system being a middle way between capitalist America and the communist USSR. Recently, after "a bit of procrastination", I finally took Childs' book off my shelf, finding much to my surprise that he wrote about a middle way between fascism and communism, now both long extinct in Europe. He had written the book in 1936, though I had a later edition. In my edition, things were brought up to date--that is up to 1946 ! Thus, the picture of Swedish society offered here is a little passe. I don't think it would be of much use to anyone now, though SWEDEN: THE MIDDLE WAY was a best seller in its day and had a fair amount of influence on thinking in various countries.Childs writes of the cooperative movement in Sweden----how it started, what it achieved both nationally and internationally, its connection to housing, power generation, state industry and state monopolies, to the king, and even to liquor problems. He uses a lot of statistics and examples drawn from light bulb industries, galosh makers, living arrangements in worker housing colonies, and such. It wouldn't have been a very easy read even in the Thirties of the last century, being aimed at policy makers more than the general reading public. Now, I expect most people might wonder why they bothered. That's why I've given it only two stars. But if you want to know what cheap Bordeaux cost in Sweden back then, the Swedish king's role in the general strike of 1909, and many interesting facts about the Swedish state railway system eighty years ago, this could be the book for you.
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