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- Title
Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies: married women's work in eighteenth-century urban Sweden.
- Authors
ÅGREN, MARIA
- Abstract
Based on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households through paid work. The lack of attention to these kinds of work has also overemphasized the closed character of early modern households which were, in fact, both flexible and permeable units.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; EMPLOYMENT of married women; CITIES &; towns; HOUSEHOLDS -- Social aspects; EXCISE tax; HOUSEHOLD employees; WIVES; SOCIOLOGY of work; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Urban History, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 3, p394
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926813000618