Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960

1. Introduction: Encounters and Trading Practices2. Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood3. Dressed for Peddling: Dalkullor, Marketing and Practices of Tradition4. Rag Collectors: Mobility and Barter in a Circular Flow of Goods5. Unruly and Submissive Marketgoers: Peasants Practicing Trade and Forming Markets6. Gifts, Feasts, and the Surplus of Friendship: Practices in a Remembered Economy of Petty Trading7. Mobile Sex Trade: Fairs and the Livelihoods of Female Itinerant Sex Workers in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland8. Exhibiting the Extraordinary Body: Six Itinerant Performers and Their Livelihood in the Nordic Countries, 1864-19129. "The Whole World Had the Sound of the Barrel Organ": Representations of Fairs in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1870s to the 1910s10. "Threatening Livelihoods": Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire11. Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading12. Forced into Trade Out of Necessity: Working-Class Narratives on Petty Trade13. Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland14. Conclusions: Dealing with Difference

Jutta Ahlbeck is Adjunct Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
Eija Stark is Adjunct Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
Ann-Catrin Östman is Adjunct Professor and Senior Lecturer at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.