Alina Jägerstedt
Alina Josefina Rosalie Jägerstedt (3 June 1858 – 3 November 1919) was a Swedish social democrat and trade unionist. She was the only female member at the congress of 1889, where the Swedish Social Democratic Party was founded. She participated as the representative for the (Scandinavian Tobacco Worker's Union). Thanks to the motion she presented at the congress, both sexes were included in the Swedish Social Democratic Party from the start. Life Alina Jägerstedt was born in family of the Stockholm working class. Her father, police officer Anders Johan Jägerstedt, died shortly after her birth, and her two brothers were placed in an orphanage (Stora Barnhuset) because her mother was unable to support all of her children as a widow. Jägerstedt started to work in the tobacco industry at the age of twelve. After having a child early with a man who abandoned her, she supported both herself, her daughter and her elderly mother alone. Jägerstedt joined the Skandinaviska Tobaksarbetarförbundet in 1884, the year of its foundation. Not only were there many women in the tobacco industry, but in contrast to other industrial work, women often had more qualified work assignments within this industry, which gave them a stronger position