Orsi Husz
Biographic Data
| ID | 157374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orsi Husz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orsi |
| FAMILY NAME | Husz |
| SIGNATURE | HUSZ O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7194-5533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Birth of the Finance Consumer
This article examines a series of financial study courses for women in 1950s Sweden, jointly organised by commercial banks and an important non-partisan women's organisation, the Fredrika Bremer Association. The aim is to highlight and explain historical connections between feminism and financialisation. I argue that the feminist aspiration to emancipate women from the curtailments of ‘petty’ domestic finance aligned with the banks’ desire to dom…
The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden
This article analyzes the so-called turn to the market in Sweden, with an emphasis on aspects that are typically absent from large-scale narratives. How did the changes known as neoliberalization and financialization enter everyday life and mundane financial practices? And which analytical tools can historians use to meaningfully connect the experience of changes on the micro level to those on the macro level? Zooming in on the the year 1979 and …
Between human capital and human worth
This study concerns the history of Swedish public everyday discourse about knowledge and its benefits for the individual, c. 1920–1974. We examine the value(s) ascribed to knowledge – in economic and/or idealistic terms – using private correspondence institutes as our point of departure. These were immensely popular, yet have hitherto been overlooked by historians. First, we argue that commercially driven correspondence education, which was a mas…
From the great department store with love
This article highlights the transfers and practical uses of the commercial knowledge of window dressing in early twentieth-century Sweden through the analysis of the professional career and family business of Oscar Lundkvist, Swedish display pioneer and former window dresser in chief of the largest and first Swedish department store, Nordiska Kompaniet. Building on rich source material including unique written and photographic documents from the …
Bank Identity
Today, nearly the entire adult population in Sweden uses a digital BankID for more purposes than only financial ones. Issuing identity documents is commonly perceived as a task for state authorities, but in Swedish society banks have played a dominant role as identificators. The first contribution of this article is that it explains this unique emergence of bank identity and traces the historical roots of a financial identification society to the…
From wage earners to financial consumers. Cheque account salaries in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s
Dans la seconde moitié des années 1950, les banques commerciales suédoises ont offert aux employeurs de gérer leur service de paie et ouvert des comptes chèques aux employés et aux ouvriers. En une décennie, les salariés sont devenus des consommateurs de services financiers, et les établissements bancaires – jusque-là augustes institutions au service exclusif des entreprises et des riches particuliers –, des débitants de produits grand public. Le…
Quotidien doré
Cet article explore les aspects culturels, historiques et genrés de la financiarisation de la vie quotidienne. Il s'appuie sur le cas d'une importante campagne bancaire en Suède dans les années 1960 ciblant les ménagères, en analysant un cycle de conférences appelé « Quotidien doré » (1961-1969) comme représentation de la finance populaire. Deux questions traversent l'article. D'une part, comment les identités financières sont-elles construites e…
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden This article discusses perceptions of material mass culture in twentieth-century Sweden through the lens of the concept of «quality». It aims to shed light on how the concept of quality emerged in connection with mass culture and mass consumerism in Swedish public debates and writings, and how it was used, defined and redefined between the seemingly opposite p…
Collapse of a Bourgeoisie? The Wealthy in Stockholm, 1915–1965
The paper explores the decline of the propertied bourgeoisie in Sweden in the twentieth century by analysing data from Stockholm Directory of Wealth reporting on private wealth in the years 1914, 1928 and 1963. Wealth tax statistics are used as complementary sources. How did the overall level of wealth change among the affluent Stockholmers during this period? Who were the wealthiest people in Stockholm and how did the social stratification withi…
Private Dreams and Public Expectations
This article explores morality and contradictions in Swedish political discussions between 1899 and 1939 concerning lotteries in general and the state lottery in particular. The seemingly narrow debates on lotteries reflected general dilemmas of the emerging modern consumer and welfare society. In order to balance economic value against the perceived lack of moral and social values, politicians were forced to define and redefine the concept of lo…
Drömmar och kompetens. Kvinnor och det tidiga 1900-talets varuhus
This article is a historical investigation into department stores and consumer culture from a gender perspective. The analysis focuses on two dichotomies: hedonistic versus rational consumption and emancipatory versus oppressive consumption. These two dichotomies are interdependent in many ways. In studies on consumer culture and gender history there are two major interpretations of the significance of the early department store. The stores are p…
From wage earners to financial consumers. Cheque account salaries in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s
Dans la seconde moitié des années 1950, les banques commerciales suédoises ont offert aux employeurs de gérer leur service de paie et ouvert des comptes chèques aux employés et aux ouvriers. En une décennie, les salariés sont devenus des consommateurs de services financiers, et les établissements bancaires – jusque-là augustes institutions au service exclusif des entreprises et des riches particuliers –, des débitants de produits grand public. Le…
Private Dreams and Public Expectations
This article explores morality and contradictions in Swedish political discussions between 1899 and 1939 concerning lotteries in general and the state lottery in particular. The seemingly narrow debates on lotteries reflected general dilemmas of the emerging modern consumer and welfare society. In order to balance economic value against the perceived lack of moral and social values, politicians were forced to define and redefine the concept of lo…
The Birth of the Finance Consumer
This article examines a series of financial study courses for women in 1950s Sweden, jointly organised by commercial banks and an important non-partisan women's organisation, the Fredrika Bremer Association. The aim is to highlight and explain historical connections between feminism and financialisation. I argue that the feminist aspiration to emancipate women from the curtailments of ‘petty’ domestic finance aligned with the banks’ desire to dom…
Quotidien doré
Cet article explore les aspects culturels, historiques et genrés de la financiarisation de la vie quotidienne. Il s'appuie sur le cas d'une importante campagne bancaire en Suède dans les années 1960 ciblant les ménagères, en analysant un cycle de conférences appelé « Quotidien doré » (1961-1969) comme représentation de la finance populaire. Deux questions traversent l'article. D'une part, comment les identités financières sont-elles construites e…
The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden
This article analyzes the so-called turn to the market in Sweden, with an emphasis on aspects that are typically absent from large-scale narratives. How did the changes known as neoliberalization and financialization enter everyday life and mundane financial practices? And which analytical tools can historians use to meaningfully connect the experience of changes on the micro level to those on the macro level? Zooming in on the the year 1979 and …
Bank Identity
Today, nearly the entire adult population in Sweden uses a digital BankID for more purposes than only financial ones. Issuing identity documents is commonly perceived as a task for state authorities, but in Swedish society banks have played a dominant role as identificators. The first contribution of this article is that it explains this unique emergence of bank identity and traces the historical roots of a financial identification society to the…
Between human capital and human worth
This study concerns the history of Swedish public everyday discourse about knowledge and its benefits for the individual, c. 1920–1974. We examine the value(s) ascribed to knowledge – in economic and/or idealistic terms – using private correspondence institutes as our point of departure. These were immensely popular, yet have hitherto been overlooked by historians. First, we argue that commercially driven correspondence education, which was a mas…
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden This article discusses perceptions of material mass culture in twentieth-century Sweden through the lens of the concept of «quality». It aims to shed light on how the concept of quality emerged in connection with mass culture and mass consumerism in Swedish public debates and writings, and how it was used, defined and redefined between the seemingly opposite p…
Drömmar och kompetens. Kvinnor och det tidiga 1900-talets varuhus
This article is a historical investigation into department stores and consumer culture from a gender perspective. The analysis focuses on two dichotomies: hedonistic versus rational consumption and emancipatory versus oppressive consumption. These two dichotomies are interdependent in many ways. In studies on consumer culture and gender history there are two major interpretations of the significance of the early department store. The stores are p…
Private Dreams and Public Expectations
This article explores morality and contradictions in Swedish political discussions between 1899 and 1939 concerning lotteries in general and the state lottery in particular. The seemingly narrow debates on lotteries reflected general dilemmas of the emerging modern consumer and welfare society. In order to balance economic value against the perceived lack of moral and social values, politicians were forced to define and redefine the concept of lo…
Collapse of a Bourgeoisie? The Wealthy in Stockholm, 1915–1965
The paper explores the decline of the propertied bourgeoisie in Sweden in the twentieth century by analysing data from Stockholm Directory of Wealth reporting on private wealth in the years 1914, 1928 and 1963. Wealth tax statistics are used as complementary sources. How did the overall level of wealth change among the affluent Stockholmers during this period? Who were the wealthiest people in Stockholm and how did the social stratification withi…
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden
The Morality of Quality. Assimilating Material Mass Culture in Twentieth-Century Sweden This article discusses perceptions of material mass culture in twentieth-century Sweden through the lens of the concept of «quality». It aims to shed light on how the concept of quality emerged in connection with mass culture and mass consumerism in Swedish public debates and writings, and how it was used, defined and redefined between the seemingly opposite p…
From wage earners to financial consumers. Cheque account salaries in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s
Dans la seconde moitié des années 1950, les banques commerciales suédoises ont offert aux employeurs de gérer leur service de paie et ouvert des comptes chèques aux employés et aux ouvriers. En une décennie, les salariés sont devenus des consommateurs de services financiers, et les établissements bancaires – jusque-là augustes institutions au service exclusif des entreprises et des riches particuliers –, des débitants de produits grand public. Le…
Quotidien doré
Cet article explore les aspects culturels, historiques et genrés de la financiarisation de la vie quotidienne. Il s'appuie sur le cas d'une importante campagne bancaire en Suède dans les années 1960 ciblant les ménagères, en analysant un cycle de conférences appelé « Quotidien doré » (1961-1969) comme représentation de la finance populaire. Deux questions traversent l'article. D'une part, comment les identités financières sont-elles construites e…
From the great department store with love
This article highlights the transfers and practical uses of the commercial knowledge of window dressing in early twentieth-century Sweden through the analysis of the professional career and family business of Oscar Lundkvist, Swedish display pioneer and former window dresser in chief of the largest and first Swedish department store, Nordiska Kompaniet. Building on rich source material including unique written and photographic documents from the …
Bank Identity
Today, nearly the entire adult population in Sweden uses a digital BankID for more purposes than only financial ones. Issuing identity documents is commonly perceived as a task for state authorities, but in Swedish society banks have played a dominant role as identificators. The first contribution of this article is that it explains this unique emergence of bank identity and traces the historical roots of a financial identification society to the…
Between human capital and human worth
This study concerns the history of Swedish public everyday discourse about knowledge and its benefits for the individual, c. 1920–1974. We examine the value(s) ascribed to knowledge – in economic and/or idealistic terms – using private correspondence institutes as our point of departure. These were immensely popular, yet have hitherto been overlooked by historians. First, we argue that commercially driven correspondence education, which was a mas…
The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden
This article analyzes the so-called turn to the market in Sweden, with an emphasis on aspects that are typically absent from large-scale narratives. How did the changes known as neoliberalization and financialization enter everyday life and mundane financial practices? And which analytical tools can historians use to meaningfully connect the experience of changes on the micro level to those on the macro level? Zooming in on the the year 1979 and …
The Birth of the Finance Consumer
This article examines a series of financial study courses for women in 1950s Sweden, jointly organised by commercial banks and an important non-partisan women's organisation, the Fredrika Bremer Association. The aim is to highlight and explain historical connections between feminism and financialisation. I argue that the feminist aspiration to emancipate women from the curtailments of ‘petty’ domestic finance aligned with the banks’ desire to dom…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Market economy (3 works)