The 1880s was a period of great activity and organisation of the new labour movement in Sweden, as well as the introduction of Socialism within it.
[2] The Kvinnliga arbetarklubben was founded by a group of politically engaged women within the labor movement.
[3] The stated purpose of the club was not, officially, to work with "women's issues", but to work to recruit more women to become involved within the labour movement and interested in becoming politically involved.
Their main activity was to improve the rights and conditions for women within the workforce by helping them to organise within working unions.
[5] The example of this pioneer club was followed all over the nation, and several similar local women worker's clubs was founded in Sweden, though they were all to be temporary until the foundation of the Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb, which was founded in 1892 with Kvinnliga arbetarklubben as its role model, and became the first women's club to be formally included in the Swedish Social Democratic Party.