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The Everyday Geography of Work
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media Studies, Fashion Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5934-9977
Number of Authors: 42025 (English)In: Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 / [ed] Maria Ågren, Oxford University Press, 2025, p. 162-183Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores everyday mobility and its relationship to the gender division of work in the period 1720 to 1880. Building on verb data and adding information about location, the chapter discusses the underlying and changing infrastructure of such mobility, as well as three main factors behind the mobility of early modern and nineteenth-century societies: the character of agriculture (open fields), the need for extra labour, and the distribution of goods. The chapter refutes the standard narrative of gender, work, and space in the nineteenth century as summarized in the phrase ‘separation of home and workplace’. It shows instead that the working lives of both women and men were characterized by many forms of mobility, by new ‘mobility sites’, and by mobility creating contact and causing conflict in everyday life (reflected in court records). The evidence suggests continuity in the geographical range of women’s activity patterns and a larger, more varied, and expanding radius for men. It also suggests that class was a factor affecting people’s work-related mobility.

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Oxford University Press, 2025. p. 162-183
Keywords [en]
agriculture, class, distribution of goods, division of work, enclosure, extra labour, gender, mobility, mobility site
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Gender Studies Economic History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-249806DOI: 10.1093/9780198934325.003.0008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105020841121ISBN: 9780198934295 (print)ISBN: 9780198934325 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-249806DiVA, id: diva2:2014875
Available from: 2025-11-19 Created: 2025-11-19 Last updated: 2025-11-19Bibliographically approved

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