Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960 Forgotten Livelihoods /
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 tr...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Encounters and Trading Practices
- 2. Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood
- 3. Dressed for Peddling: Dalkullor, Marketing and Practices of Tradition
- 4. Rag Collectors: Mobility and Barter in a Circular Flow of Goods
- 5. Unruly and Submissive Marketgoers: Peasants Practicing Trade and Forming Markets
- 6. Gifts, Feasts, and the Surplus of Friendship: Practices in a Remembered Economy of Petty Trading
- 7. Mobile Sex Trade: Fairs and the Livelihoods of Female Itinerant Sex Workers in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland
- 8. Exhibiting the Extraordinary Body: Six Itinerant Performers and Their Livelihood in the Nordic Countries, 1864-1912
- 9. "The Whole World Had the Sound of the Barrel Organ": Representations of Fairs in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1870s to the 1910s
- 10. "Threatening Livelihoods": Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire
- 11. Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading
- 12. Forced into Trade Out of Necessity: Working-Class Narratives on Petty Trade
- 13. Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland
- 14. Conclusions: Dealing with Difference.