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People on the move: determinants of servant migration in nineteenth-century Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2005

MARTIN DRIBE  and
CHRISTER LUNDH
MARTIN DRIBE
Affiliation:
Department of Economic History, Lund University.
CHRISTER LUNDH
Affiliation:
Department of Economic History, Lund University.
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Abstract

This article deals with the high mobility of servants in preindustrial northwestern Europe. By combining both a qualitative and a quantitative approach we analyse the determinants of servant migration in the province of Scania, in southern Sweden, during the nineteenth century. The analysis shows that about half of the moves were connected to the structure of working-life organization, servant hierarchy and marriage. The rest depended on a range of other factors such as the type and structure of the master's household, variations in the demand for labour caused by fluctuations in harvest yields, conflicts within households, or a wish to gain additional training.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 53 - 91
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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