Anna Sterky
Ane Cathrine "Anna" Sterky née Nielsen (1856–1939) was a Danish-Swedish politician (Social Democrat), trade union organiser, feminist and editor, chiefly active in Sweden.[1]
Sterky worked as a seamstress in Denmark, where she was active in the Danish trade union movement. In 1891, she moved to Sweden with the Swedish trade union organiser Fredrik Sterky, with whom she had a relationship; they never married, but she used his surname.
She was a pioneer in her work to build up trade unions for women, and she also worked for the creation of a social democratic women's group within the party. She was a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1900 to 1925, chairwoman of the Women's Trade Union (1902–1907), editor of the magazine Morgonbris of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden, together with Maria Sandel[2] (1904–1909) and honorary chairwoman of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden (1920–1925).
References
[edit]- ^ Stig Hadenius, Torbjörn Nilsson & Gunnar Åselius (1996). Sveriges historia. Borås: Bonnier Albs. ISBN 91-34-51857-6
- ^ Katarina Leppänen (2019). "The Swedish journal Morgonbris on political violence in Finland 1917–1918". Scandinavian Journal of History. 44 (2): 194. doi:10.1080/03468755.2018.1466986.
- Gunhild Kyle och Eva von Krusenstjerna (1993). Kvinnoprofiler. Norstedts Tryckeri AB Stockholm: Natur & Kultur. ISBN 91-27-75349-2.
- Stig Hadenius, Torbjörn Nilsson & Gunnar Åselius (1996). Sveriges historia. Borås: Bonnier Albs. ISBN 91-34-51857-6.
Further reading
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- 1856 births
- Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians
- Swedish trade unionists
- 1939 deaths
- 20th-century Swedish women politicians
- 20th-century Swedish politicians
- 19th-century Swedish politicians
- Swedish feminists
- Danish emigrants to Sweden
- Swedish socialist feminists
- 19th-century Swedish women politicians
- Swedish trade union leaders