Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820¿1960

Forgotten Livelihoods
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-98082-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 353 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahlbeck, Jutta

Stark, Eija

Östman, Ann-Catrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Encounters and Trading Practices2. Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood3. Dressed for Peddling: Dalkullor, Marketing and Practices of Tradition4. Rag Collectors: Mobility and Barter in a Circular Flow of Goods5. Unruly and Submissive Marketgoers: Peasants Practicing Trade and Forming Markets6. Gifts, Feasts, and the Surplus of Friendship: Practices in a Remembered Economy of Petty Trading7. Mobile Sex Trade: Fairs and the Livelihoods of Female Itinerant Sex Workers in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland8. Exhibiting the Extraordinary Body: Six Itinerant Performers and Their Livelihood in the Nordic Countries, 1864–19129. “The Whole World Had the Sound of the Barrel Organ”: Representations of Fairs in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1870s to the 1910s10. “Threatening Livelihoods”: Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire11. Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading12. Forced into Trade Out of Necessity: Working-Class Narratives on Petty Trade13. Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland14. Conclusions: Dealing with Difference

Über Autor(innen)

Jutta Ahlbeck is a Researcher and Docent of History of Ideas. She is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University and University of Oulu, Finland.

Ann-Catrin Östman is a Senior Lecturer and Docent of History. She is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Eija Stark is a Researcher and Docent of Folklore Studies. She is the Development Manager of the Finnish Literature Society, Finland.