ABSTRACT This article analyses the democratic experiences of men and women engaged in early workers’ organizations in Sweden in the mid–19th-century. The source materials were membership criteria for over 120 organizations and manuscripts from four workers’ organizations. The article shows that engagement in the early workers’ movement in Sweden was gendered. All organizations were open to men, but women’s opportunities were limited. In addition, the democratic experiences of men and women in gender-mixed associations were somewhat different. Men were more likely than women to hold administrative positions. For that reason, the story of the association’s function in stimulating democratization should be rewritten as a historical process that politically and economically marginalized men and women entered on different premises and at different stages during the 19th century.

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性别民主经验？19 世纪中期瑞典工人组织中的男性和女性

摘要 本文分析了 19 世纪中叶瑞典早期工人组织中男性和女性的民主经历。源材料是 120 多个组织的成员资格标准和来自四个工人组织的手稿。这篇文章表明，瑞典早期工人运动的参与是性别化的。所有组织都对男性开放，但女性的机会有限。此外，男女在混合性社团中的民主体验也有所不同。男性比女性更有可能担任行政职务。是因为，