Maria Ågren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1480141 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maria Ågren |
| PRENOMES | Maria |
| SOBRENOME | Ågren |
| ASSINATURA | ÅGREN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7603-291X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden – Addendum
From Careful Observation to Experimental Interpretation
The history of work is marred by the fact that the meaning of “labour” or “work” changed with the arrival of modern society, making it difficult to draw comparisons across time. There has been a shift from understanding work as any activity that may secure continued living and well-being, to seeing it as paid, full-time, specialized employment. This transformation has obscured the work of some groups in society (notably women but also others) and…
The Best of Both Worlds”
In this article, which has a strong methodological focus, we establish the labour relations that characterized the urban population of the Swedish town of Västerås in 1820. Several sources are combined: the so-called Tabellverket (an early form of demographic statistics) and observations made in, primarily, local court records. To assign labour relations as defined by the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations project, the prelim…
Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England
Historians have agreed that the gender division of labour in rural households was broadly similar across the whole of northern and western Europe during the early modern period. Until recently, however, there has been a lack of detailed data about the historical division of labour within European countries with which to test the validity of such cross-cultural generalizations. New research that has collected evidence of work tasks for early moder…
Hemma och borta
This article uses results from a large historical study on working practices to argue that a marked spatial and gendered separation of home and work is not a historical constant. Based on data extracted from court records from the Swedish city of Västerås and its rural surroundings in the period 1720–1881, the authors show that both women and men carried out a considerable share of their work in homes rather than in dedicated workplaces. Work in …
The Whole Economy
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth i…
Whole Economy
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden
It has long been recognized that, in order to understand economies in the past, we need better information about women's work and tertiary sector work. It is also well known that, while valuable in many ways, nineteenth-century censuses give incomplete information about women's contributions to the economy. Consequently, censuses are a poor basis for estimating the occupational structure. This article offers a solution to these problems by triang…
Learning Law and Travelling Europe
Journal Article Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c.1630–1800, by Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Get access Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c.1630–1800, by Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (Leiden: Brill, 2020; pp. xiv + 428. €146). Maria ÅGren Maria ÅGren Uppsala University, Sweden [email protected] Search for other works by this …
Mistress or maid
Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in early modern Sweden. On the level of concrete tasks, however, there was both difference and similarity between the genders. Marital status exerted a strong influence on women's sustenance activities, creating a clear distinction between unmarried and ever-married women. These…
Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden
Toomas Kotkas’ book is a valuable contribution to the study of early modern society. Focusing on a large body of written law—Swedish statute law from the period 1523 to 1718—Kotkas discusses the role of law in a period characterised by commercialisation and state formation. The study is based on 1,236 royal ordinances (including 1,429 different ‘matters’) published in the eighteenth century in four well-known source collections. All matters have …
Another Process of State Formation
This article discusses why legitimacy remained a problem for the eighteenth-century Swedish state administration. Using the case of customs officials in the town of Örebro, the article shows that complaints from citizens about the behaviour of these men were rife. While not impartial, such complaints nevertheless highlight the problematic situation of lower state employees: they often lacked local networks and were poorly educated and badly paid.…
Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies
Based on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households thr…
His Estate’ – or Hers? Three Chapters in the History of Married Women's Property Rights in Sweden, 1350–1850
Making verbs count
While gender relations in the post-1800 labour market have been subject to much scholarly scrutiny, less is known about how women and men supported themselves in the early modern period. This article discusses the reasons for this lacuna and explores various approaches that could be used to increase knowledge in the field. It describes the verb-oriented method, used by the Gender and Work project at Uppsala University and inspired by the work of …
Caring for the widowed spouse
This article discusses how widows and widowers were provided for in early modern Sweden, focussing in particular on the use of wills. The investigated area is the parish of Undersåker in Jämtland, northern Sweden, and the period c. 1750 to 1915. The point of departure is the fact that Swedish medieval and early modern law did give quite strong property rights to widows and widowers. Therefore, if these rights were respected by family members and …
Asserting One's Rights
In 1685, the Swedish nobleman Per Sparre instituted legal proceedings against the printer Niclas Wankyf. The dispute had been triggered by Sparre having let his tenants erect houses for themselves on what Wankyf regarded as his private property. Wankyf had consequently torn down the buildings, causing Sparre to bring the case to court. However, Wankyf clearly saw himself as the aggrieved party and regarded Sparre as a trespasser. Arguing his case…
Contracts for the Old or Gifts for the Young? On the Use of Wills in Early Modern Sweden
Le role de l'equite dans la propriete est analyse d'un point de vue legislatif a travers des exemples du systeme suedois
Iron-Making Societies
Land and Debt
When writing his final report in 1823 on the current state of affairs in the county of Kopparberg in Sweden, its governor, Hans Järta, made a short digression to ponder upon the differences between England and Sweden. According to Järta, England had been unfortunate in that it had deprived a large proportion of its rural population of the land on which they could otherwise have supported themselves. They had now, Järta remarked, no other choice b…
Mistress or maid
Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in early modern Sweden. On the level of concrete tasks, however, there was both difference and similarity between the genders. Marital status exerted a strong influence on women's sustenance activities, creating a clear distinction between unmarried and ever-married women. These…
Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies
Based on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households thr…
Land and Debt
When writing his final report in 1823 on the current state of affairs in the county of Kopparberg in Sweden, its governor, Hans Järta, made a short digression to ponder upon the differences between England and Sweden. According to Järta, England had been unfortunate in that it had deprived a large proportion of its rural population of the land on which they could otherwise have supported themselves. They had now, Järta remarked, no other choice b…
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden
It has long been recognized that, in order to understand economies in the past, we need better information about women's work and tertiary sector work. It is also well known that, while valuable in many ways, nineteenth-century censuses give incomplete information about women's contributions to the economy. Consequently, censuses are a poor basis for estimating the occupational structure. This article offers a solution to these problems by triang…
Another Process of State Formation
This article discusses why legitimacy remained a problem for the eighteenth-century Swedish state administration. Using the case of customs officials in the town of Örebro, the article shows that complaints from citizens about the behaviour of these men were rife. While not impartial, such complaints nevertheless highlight the problematic situation of lower state employees: they often lacked local networks and were poorly educated and badly paid.…
Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England
Historians have agreed that the gender division of labour in rural households was broadly similar across the whole of northern and western Europe during the early modern period. Until recently, however, there has been a lack of detailed data about the historical division of labour within European countries with which to test the validity of such cross-cultural generalizations. New research that has collected evidence of work tasks for early moder…
His Estate’ – or Hers? Three Chapters in the History of Married Women's Property Rights in Sweden, 1350–1850
Caring for the widowed spouse
This article discusses how widows and widowers were provided for in early modern Sweden, focussing in particular on the use of wills. The investigated area is the parish of Undersåker in Jämtland, northern Sweden, and the period c. 1750 to 1915. The point of departure is the fact that Swedish medieval and early modern law did give quite strong property rights to widows and widowers. Therefore, if these rights were respected by family members and …
Asserting One's Rights
In 1685, the Swedish nobleman Per Sparre instituted legal proceedings against the printer Niclas Wankyf. The dispute had been triggered by Sparre having let his tenants erect houses for themselves on what Wankyf regarded as his private property. Wankyf had consequently torn down the buildings, causing Sparre to bring the case to court. However, Wankyf clearly saw himself as the aggrieved party and regarded Sparre as a trespasser. Arguing his case…
Land and Debt
When writing his final report in 1823 on the current state of affairs in the county of Kopparberg in Sweden, its governor, Hans Järta, made a short digression to ponder upon the differences between England and Sweden. According to Järta, England had been unfortunate in that it had deprived a large proportion of its rural population of the land on which they could otherwise have supported themselves. They had now, Järta remarked, no other choice b…
Iron-Making Societies
Contracts for the Old or Gifts for the Young? On the Use of Wills in Early Modern Sweden
Le role de l'equite dans la propriete est analyse d'un point de vue legislatif a travers des exemples du systeme suedois
Asserting One's Rights
In 1685, the Swedish nobleman Per Sparre instituted legal proceedings against the printer Niclas Wankyf. The dispute had been triggered by Sparre having let his tenants erect houses for themselves on what Wankyf regarded as his private property. Wankyf had consequently torn down the buildings, causing Sparre to bring the case to court. However, Wankyf clearly saw himself as the aggrieved party and regarded Sparre as a trespasser. Arguing his case…
Caring for the widowed spouse
This article discusses how widows and widowers were provided for in early modern Sweden, focussing in particular on the use of wills. The investigated area is the parish of Undersåker in Jämtland, northern Sweden, and the period c. 1750 to 1915. The point of departure is the fact that Swedish medieval and early modern law did give quite strong property rights to widows and widowers. Therefore, if these rights were respected by family members and …
Making verbs count
While gender relations in the post-1800 labour market have been subject to much scholarly scrutiny, less is known about how women and men supported themselves in the early modern period. This article discusses the reasons for this lacuna and explores various approaches that could be used to increase knowledge in the field. It describes the verb-oriented method, used by the Gender and Work project at Uppsala University and inspired by the work of …
Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies
Based on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households thr…
His Estate’ – or Hers? Three Chapters in the History of Married Women's Property Rights in Sweden, 1350–1850
Another Process of State Formation
This article discusses why legitimacy remained a problem for the eighteenth-century Swedish state administration. Using the case of customs officials in the town of Örebro, the article shows that complaints from citizens about the behaviour of these men were rife. While not impartial, such complaints nevertheless highlight the problematic situation of lower state employees: they often lacked local networks and were poorly educated and badly paid.…
Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden
Toomas Kotkas’ book is a valuable contribution to the study of early modern society. Focusing on a large body of written law—Swedish statute law from the period 1523 to 1718—Kotkas discusses the role of law in a period characterised by commercialisation and state formation. The study is based on 1,236 royal ordinances (including 1,429 different ‘matters’) published in the eighteenth century in four well-known source collections. All matters have …
Mistress or maid
Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in early modern Sweden. On the level of concrete tasks, however, there was both difference and similarity between the genders. Marital status exerted a strong influence on women's sustenance activities, creating a clear distinction between unmarried and ever-married women. These…
Learning Law and Travelling Europe
Journal Article Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c.1630–1800, by Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Get access Learning Law and Travelling Europe: Study Journeys and the Developing Swedish Legal Profession, c.1630–1800, by Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (Leiden: Brill, 2020; pp. xiv + 428. €146). Maria ÅGren Maria ÅGren Uppsala University, Sweden [email protected] Search for other works by this …
The Whole Economy
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth i…
Whole Economy
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden
It has long been recognized that, in order to understand economies in the past, we need better information about women's work and tertiary sector work. It is also well known that, while valuable in many ways, nineteenth-century censuses give incomplete information about women's contributions to the economy. Consequently, censuses are a poor basis for estimating the occupational structure. This article offers a solution to these problems by triang…
Hemma och borta
This article uses results from a large historical study on working practices to argue that a marked spatial and gendered separation of home and work is not a historical constant. Based on data extracted from court records from the Swedish city of Västerås and its rural surroundings in the period 1720–1881, the authors show that both women and men carried out a considerable share of their work in homes rather than in dedicated workplaces. Work in …
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden – Addendum
From Careful Observation to Experimental Interpretation
The history of work is marred by the fact that the meaning of “labour” or “work” changed with the arrival of modern society, making it difficult to draw comparisons across time. There has been a shift from understanding work as any activity that may secure continued living and well-being, to seeing it as paid, full-time, specialized employment. This transformation has obscured the work of some groups in society (notably women but also others) and…
The Best of Both Worlds”
In this article, which has a strong methodological focus, we establish the labour relations that characterized the urban population of the Swedish town of Västerås in 1820. Several sources are combined: the so-called Tabellverket (an early form of demographic statistics) and observations made in, primarily, local court records. To assign labour relations as defined by the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations project, the prelim…
Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England
Historians have agreed that the gender division of labour in rural households was broadly similar across the whole of northern and western Europe during the early modern period. Until recently, however, there has been a lack of detailed data about the historical division of labour within European countries with which to test the validity of such cross-cultural generalizations. New research that has collected evidence of work tasks for early moder…
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