The Swedish Bookbinders' Union ( sv, Svenska Bokbindareförbundet, SBbaf) was a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (s ...

representing bookbinders in Sweden. The union was founded on 18 March 1893 as the Swedish Bookbinding Workers' Union, and set up headquarters in Stockholm. It was an early member of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, 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 The Swedish Lithographic Union ( sv, Sveriges Litografiska Förbund, Litograf) was a trade union representing lithographic printers in Sweden. The first Swedish Lithographic Union was established in 1895 at a conference in Norrköping. However, ...

, to form the

Swedish Graphic Workers' Union The Swedish Graphic Workers' Union ( sv, Grafiska Fackförbundet, 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 ...

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