Women as mobile vendors
Petty trade and rural poverty in early twentieth-century Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22124725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann-Catrin Östman (Åbo Akademi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-228 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Retailing and Consumption (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5171 • E-ISSN: 2373-518X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2373518x.2023.2178810 |
| OpenAlex | W4321252638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
By focusing on poor rural women, this paper offers an exploration of the practices of itinerant trading during an era marked by modernisation and proletarisation. There are few sources regarding small-scale trading practiced on the margins of society, informally or on the fringe of legality. There is also a very limited amount of archival material, such as fiscal and legal sources, concerning these small-scale, informal forms of exchange. In this paper, I examine ethnographic material collected in the 1960s, when the Finnish Heritage Agency circulated questionnaires to collect information about traditional forms of trade among country folk. Such questionnaires were sent to a panel of respondents who regularly participated in enquiries on diverse themes. In their responses to questions on the subject ‘travels for trade’, persons with a rural background depicted customary and local practices of trading. How are female itinerant traders depicted
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Modernization theory · Political science · Poverty · Principle of legality · Social science · Sociology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History of Emotions Research · Law
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |