%0 Journal Article
%T Alcohol Misuse: Stories from the Early Industrialism in Sweden
%A Anders Gustavsson
%J Open Journal of Social Sciences
%P 354-384
%@ 2327-5960
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jss.2023.115023
%X In the present investigation, misuse of alcohol during the early
industrializati<span>on in Sweden from the 1870s
and onward has been front and center. New</span> ways of living emerged among
male workers. Alcohol received a prominent <span>role.
A main objective here is to find and analyze stories from self expe</span>rienced
situations where alcohol misuse was widely common and excessive. I want to get
an insider perspective from those misusing to the stories told by those being
around them. It was commonly considered that certain working class individuals
were the ones being misusers. During the late 1800s</span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">,</span></span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> it was easy to <span>get
your hands on large quantities of cheap alcohol in stores, illicit liquor</span> sh<span>ops, taverns and from mobile pushers. Adverse
effects of drinking in th</span>e <span>new
industrial communities could be both violence towards individual</span>s around
and ruining of the economy of the workersĄŻ families. WorkersĄŻ associations,
sobriety associations and the wives of workers became active counterbalancing
factors against excessive alcohol drinking.
%K Early Industrialization
%K Illicit Liquor Shops
%K Insider Perspective
%K Ruining of Family Economy
%K Self Experienced Stories
%K Wives of Workers
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=125200