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E-book Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960 : Forgotten Livelihoods

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The long nineteenth century was a period of changing modes of labor and consumption. New livelihood opportunities opened up for the landless and poor as globalization made labor mobile. At the same time, the circu-lation and exchange of various goods increased considerably, which affected trade on the global, regional, and local levels. This multidisci-plinary collection, Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960: Forgotten Livelihoods (henceforth Forgotten Livelihoods), uncovers one important yet neglected form of these emerg-ing itinerant livelihoods—namely, petty trade—and how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960 (see map in Fig. 1.1). Transnational and interregional relations characterized this sparsely populated region, where disparate groups in terms of religion, ethnicity, and language interacted.We explore how the overall increase in consumption had wide cultural and social consequences by investigating how traders and customers inter-acted in different spaces. Here, ambulatory trade is considered an arena of encounters and everyday social practices. In the Nordics, as elsewhere, mobile petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities, migrants, and the poverty-stricken, whereas their cus-tomers belonged to the resident population. Thus, our volume asks, how were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle and how did these commodities enable and shape trading encoun-ters? By approaching petty trade in terms of consumption history and by addressing the marginalization of particular social groups, this collection offers insights into livelihood practices at a grassroots level—an account that previous research has overlooked.Petty trade has been, and still is, an integral part of social, cultural, and economic life in many regions of the world. As a term, petty trade refers to an economic activity that involves selling and buying goods—agricultural as well as consumer goods and services—on a small scale. In the nine-teenth century, traditional and vernacular forms of retail, such as peddling and trade in marketplaces, continued to meet the basic needs of many customers. Petty traders, such as “peddlers,” “mongers,” “hucksters,” “hawkers,” “vendors,” and “bootleggers,” were all engaged in small-scale trade, and the epithets attached to these sellers were often pejorative, sometimes referring to their multiple levels of strangeness. Itinerant per-formers, sex workers, and professional photographers also used market-places and other venues to gain income from the entertainment and services they offered.

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948 AHL e

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Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

359 hlm

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English

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9783030980801

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948

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computer

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online resource

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