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- Martiin, Carin
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Swedish Milk, a Swedish Duty : Dairy Marketing in the 1920s and 1930s
- 2010
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Ingår i: Rural History. - 0956-7933 .- 1474-0656. ; 21:2, s. 213-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On basis of the argument 'Better milk - increased consumption' the Swedish association, 'The Milk Propaganda', managed to frame a milk marketing project in which economic interests were intertwined with references to public health and the survival of the Swedish countryside. The very idea of marketing milk, building on its quality and health, was presented as mutually beneficial for producers and consumers, and for the entire Swedish society. In the 1920s and 30s the project was visible through posters, a journal, milk restaurants and school campaigns. The story includes fascinating encounters between rurality and urbanity, materialised through milk. During the economic crisis around 1930 milk marketing became aggressive and consumers were urged to consume as much dairy produce as possible in order to fulfil their national duty to help save farmers and the countryside.
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- Niskanen, Kirsti
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Modernisation Revisited : Market Structures and Competent Farmers in Södermanland County, Sweden, during the Late Nineteenthand and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 1997
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Ingår i: Rural History. - 0956-7933 .- 1474-0656. ; 8:2, s. 175-193
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last two decades interpretations of agrarian modernisation have been the subject of critical debate. In neo-classical tradition, agrarian economists and economic historians have traditionally laid emphasis on the diffusion of technology and on the commercialisation of production. They have customarily been interested in the development of agricultural output and incomes, and basically understood modernisation as an evolutionary process by which commercial, market oriented production was substituted for traditional, subsistence production. During the 1970s and the 1980s agrarian sociologists and historians posed the question in more social and historical terms, seeking to determine which type of producers, large farmers or family farmers, were the bearers of modernisation. The traditional Marxian standpoint, as is well known, was that capitalist farming — in spite of delays and problems inherent in agricultural production — would come to dominate the agrarian sector through technical innovation and large scale production. Opposing this, neo-Marxian/neo-Chayanovian interpretations claimed that family farming, due to the innate characteristics of that particular production form, provided family farmers with a competitive advantage in relation to large scale production. According to this, more ‘social’ historical tradition, the social organisation of family based production was the key to understanding the viability, or even superiority, of family farming in the industrialised and urbanised societies of western Europe and North America.
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- Sundvall, Samuel
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Migration and decentralised industrialisation : the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850-1950)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Rural History. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0956-7933 .- 1474-0656.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950). During this period, northern Sweden experienced a slower rate of urbanisation than the rest of the country. This study proposes that decentralised industrialisation (i.e., rural-industrial labour, predominantly in the timber industry) introduced inertia to the urbanisation process by lowering the rate of rural-to-urban migration. Using longitudinal, individual-level data from the county of Västerbotten, the development of migration rates and migrant characteristics is explored via descriptive statistics. The rural population’s development and migration patterns closely correlate to the development of decentralised industrialisation. The results, therefore, indicate that decentralised industrialisation is a viable model for explaining the slow rate of urbanisation in northern Sweden.
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- Svensson, Patrick, et al.
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The wealth of the Swedish peasant farmer class (1750-1900): composition and distribution
- 2019
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Ingår i: Rural History. - 0956-7933 .- 1474-0656. ; 30, s. 129-145
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using about 1,730 probate inventories, this article studies the wealth of peasant farmers in Sweden for the years 1750, 1800, 1850 and 1900. Average wealth grew rapidly, tripling over the nineteenth century, but it did not grow equally: the Gini coefficient for the farmers' wealth grew from 0.46 in 1750 to 0.73 in 1900. Farmers who lived close to the major grain markets in Stockholm and the mining district of Bergslagen were wealthier than others, as were farmers on fertile plains and, in 1900, those living in coastal areas. Increased market access - in terms of cities and foreign demand - meant that farmers well placed in terms of geography and infrastructure benefited much more than farmers on what became the periphery. The diversity of farmers' wealth grew, as did their financial sophistication.
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