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The living standards of the labouring classes in Sweden, 1750–1900: Evidence from rural probate inventories
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- Bengtsson, Erik (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Svensson, Patrick (författare)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Economic History,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development
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- 2020
- Engelska 25 s.
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Serie: Lund Papers in Economic History. General Issues
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Serie: Lund papers in economic history, 1101-346X
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Abstract
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- This paper presents new estimates of the living standards among the rural labouring classes in Sweden from 1750 to 1900. Starting with a database of more than 1,000 probate inventories of rural landless and semi-landless people from the benchmark years 1750, 1800, 1850 and 1900, we study the development for crofters in particular. We measure their assets and debts in great detail, mapping the development of material living standards over time. We show that the typically used real wage approach to living standards gives only a partial impression of the development of proletarian living standards. Above all, the decline of Swedish living standards from 1750 to 1800 is overestimated because of overreliance on grain prices for the CPI. We show the advantages of using probate inventories for studying living standards, since they give a composite estimate of households’ material conditions, no matter what combinations of wage-labour, subsistence work and by-employment are used. This has relevance not only for Sweden, but for studies of historical living standards in general.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- living standards
- wealth
- poverty
- Inequality
- probate inventories
- Sweden
- rural workers
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