The Swedish Bookbinders' Union (, SBbaf) was a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing bookbinders in Sweden. The union was founded on 18 March 1893 as the Swedish Bookbinding Workers' Union, and set up headquarters in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

. It was an early member of the

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( ; literally "The National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-c ...

, joining in 1900. It grew steadily, from 356 members at the end of 1893, to 1,828 in 1908. By 1910, membership had fallen back to 496, but growth then resumed in earnest. By 1970, it had 12,192 members. The union's journal for many years was the ''Bokbinderi-Arbetaren'', but from 1960 it instead published ''Grafisk revy'' jointly with the Swedish Typographers' Union (Typograf).{{cite book , last1=Hans , first1=Nygren , title=Steg för steg, 1945-1973: en krönika i text och bild om den svenska fackföreningsrörelsens utveckling under efterkrigstiden , date=1973 , publisher=Prisma , location=Stockholm , isbn=915180705X On 1 January 1973, the union merged with Typograf and the Swedish Lithographic Union, to form the

Swedish Graphic Workers' Union The Swedish Graphic Workers' Union (, Grafiska or GF) was a trade union representing printing industry workers in Sweden. The union was founded when the Swedish Bookbinders' Union merged with the Swedish Lithographic Union and the Swedish Typ ...

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Bookbinders' trade unions Trade unions established in 1893 Trade unions disestablished in 1973 Trade unions in Sweden