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Företagsamhet föder framgång : Yrkeskarriärer och sociala nätverk bland företagarna i Sundsvall 1850-1900
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- Svanberg, Mikael (author)
- Umeå universitet,Karlstads universitet,Avdelningen för politiska och historiska studier,Historiska studier
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- ISBN 9171917276
- Umeå : Institutionen för historiska studier, Umeå universitet, 1999
- Swedish.
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Series: Forskningsrapporter från Institutionen för historiska studier vid Umeå universitet, 1404-4153
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Abstract
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- The present dissertation deals with the factors influencing the professional careers of mer-chants and craftsmen working in the Swedish town of Sundsvall between 1850 and 1900. The most important hypotheses are: To what degree did social origins influence an entre-preneur's opportunities for running his business? How many of the children of these busi-nessmen assumed and maintained their parents' social status upon attaining adulthood? What significance did the entrepreneur's spouse have for his business activities? To what degree were his economic activities influenced by joining local voluntary associations? By combining data culled from the parish registers of the Swedish Lutheran Church, the poll tax registers and the primary source material for national trade statistics, the author has been able to identify the individuals who worked as entrepreneurs in Sundsvall during the period under investigation, what they paid in business income tax each year, the profes-sional titles they possessed and the places in which they and their relatives resided during their lifetimes. The results show that the majority of the most successful younger entrepreneurs active in the town before the introduction of freedom of trade in Sweden in the year 1864 were mostly immigrants from other parts of the country, who had furthermore come from rela-tively modest backgrounds. However, the social and geographic origins of these entrepre-neur's wives has proven to be of central significance to the success of the business, in in-stances where she had been raised in a business family from Sundsvall. The professional skill of the entrepreneur together with his wife's familiarity with the town, in all likelihood also combined with her inherited cultural capital, contributed to creating a demand from the local populace for the goods or services sold by the company
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- 19th century
- Sweden
- Sundsvall
- entrepreneurs
- freedom of trade
- social mobility
- marriage patterns
- voluntary associations
- cultural capital
- 1800-talet
- Sverige
- företagare
- näringsfrihet
- social mobilitet
- giftermålsmönster
- folkrörelser
- kulturellt kapital
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- vet (subject category)
- dok (subject category)
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