DN Ekonomi has met six families who tell about how the work has changed from one generation to another. These are snapshots in everyday life in 2022 and we call the series “The job we inherited”.
The families talk about how working conditions have changed – driven both by political decisions and by a world in rapid transformation.
Series: The job we inherited
Sweden goes to the polls on September 11. DN Ekonomi has met five families whose stories testify to how Sweden is changing – and how politics affects their everyday lives.
This is part 1 of 6.
What do their living conditions look like and what dreams do they have for the future?
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We start with father and son, Björn and Oskar Borg. Both are dock workers – a workplace that is one of the last male bastions in the labor market. Here, employees have only two salary levels – can it be reconciled with the technological revolution when automation breaks through?
In Laholm we meet one of the election movement’s hottest professions – the police.
– Yes, new colleagues have actually arrived now. They are allowed to sit and work with shifts for ten weeks the first thing they do. Is that the right priority? says municipal police Kristian Nilsson, who has chosen the same career path as his father Lars-Göran Nilsson.
In one fell swoop, the Westberg family’s existence on Gotland has changed when inflation and the consequences of the Ukraine war put pressure on lamb production. What should food production look like in Sweden? Does politics have the answers?
In the middle of the transformation of the automotive industry The Viktorsson family is at Scania in Södertälje. They have seen how labor immigration has been crucial for the truck manufacturer. The solution in the past was immigrants from Finland, Italy or Greece. Do the parties have the answers to today’s labor shortage?
Knalledottern Pernilla Nyrensten in Borås has become one of Swedish e-commerce fix stars. She and dad Johnny talk about the dramatic transformation for small traders.
In Jokkmokk, the Läntha family is torn between the endangered reindeer herding industry and the job in the mine when climate change becomes increasingly apparent. Father and daughter tell about a Sweden where the state directly affected living conditions.
Each article has been read by experts / researchers who get to give their views on the families’ stories – they point to Sweden’s challenges and describe the problems that the families raise.
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