Bonde-Nöden

…however, with two journalistic essays: Bonde-nöden (1933; “The Distress of the Peasantry”) and Lort-Sverige (1938; “Dirt-Sweden”), dealing with the limits of common rural existence and with the filth of the supposedly “clean” Swedish countryside. Both aroused widespread discussion and, together with the contemporaneous economic studies of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal,…