Traveling Sweden’s Middle Way

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This 1940 Harmon Foundation film, Traveling the Middle Way in Sweden, explores Swedish cooperatives in three parts. Part 1 surveys the land—Stockholm, Gothenburg, water-power plants, and royalty like Gustav VI Adolf. Part 2 dives into consumer cooperation, spotlighting education and housing. Part 3 focuses on agricultural co-ops—dairying, eggs, meat, and banking. With a title card proclaiming, "Cooperating to educate - Educated to cooperate," it touts Sweden’s model for America in vivid black-and-white or early color.

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