Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden - Paperbackby Klaus Misgeld (Editor), Karl Molin (Editor), Klas mark (Editor) The Swedish Social Democratic Labor Party (SAP) was founded more than one hundred years ago, in April 1889. During this "century of social democracy" Sweden has been transformed from an agrarian to an industrial society, from a poor country to a welfare state; and the SAP has evolved from being a lower class movement to the nation's leading party for more than half a century. Is