Jordbrukets arbetare: levnadsvillkor och arbetsliv pa landsbygden fran frihetstiden till mitten av 1800-talet

Ekman, Ernst; Utterström, Gustaf

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“…Edvinsson et al (2009) documented the dominant meteorological patterns of summers during harvest failure years in southern Sweden during the early modern period, listing drought on 13 occasions since 1658 (seven occasions since 1700). Utterström (1957) observed large droughtrelated harvest losses on 29 occasions during the years 1721-1870, based on a variety of documentary evidence. Both lists offer only a partial picture of the prevalence of droughts, since documentary material only described attribute conditions like drought or excessive cold occasionally.…”

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“…In terms of overall grain production, the dominant view is that the main agrometeorological constraint in the southern third of Sweden was a lack of precipitation, at least after the cold 17th century (Edvinsson et al, 2009;Skoglund, 2022;Utterström, 1957). After the excessive cold and large-scale harvest failures of the 1690s, Utterström (1957) hypothesized, drought became the main threat to agriculture in southern Sweden (Dribe et al, 2017a;Myrdal, 2011 make similar arguments). Edvinsson et al (2009) analyzed the linear climatic impacts on harvests of specific grains in Sweden in aggregate during the period , and found that oats were overall more sensitive to precipitation patterns in the summer than barley.…”

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“…Only some of the drought P years appear in these forms, even when considering a broader area of southern Sweden, including Halland, Gothenburg diocese, to the west and Blekinge, Kalmar, and the islands of Öland and Gotland to the east. Drought P years with no evidence of drought in Tabellverket are: 1755, 1758, 1759, 1765, 1835, 1837, and 1844 (1758, 1759, and 1837 are all mentioned as drought years by Utterström, 1957). Tabellverket is used to add and not exclude years from the adjusted drought chronology (henceforth drought Padj ).…”

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“…warmer temperatures being associated with lower harvests) during the summer, suggesting a sensitivity to drought (Skoglund, 2022). Furthermore, it has been suggested that droughts became a mounting threat during and after the 18th century, especially in southern Sweden (Edvinsson et al, 2009;Utterström, 1957). At the same time, most of the land improvements during that period involved draining arable or reclaimed land, most notably through ditching, which raised productivity but presumably changed the relative risk of droughts at the same time (Linné, 1751;Nyström, 2019;Pribyl and Cornes, 2020a).…”

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The impact of drought on northern European pre-industrial agriculture

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Drought has been hypothesized to be the main agrometeorological threat facing farmers in Scania (southern Sweden) before the 20th century. However, drought is a little-studied phenomenon in Scandinavian historiography. This article attempts to establish a chronology of extreme agricultural droughts, as well as their impacts on crop harvests and grain prices across Scania during the years 1614–1914, using a combination of statistical methods. Drought years significantly reduced crop harvests in nearly all analyzed samples. However, winter crops appeared more resilient when considering the years following a drought, as these crops experienced a large and significant rebound effect. Spring and fodder crops suffered losses in drought years and did not exhibit any clear rebound in subsequent years. For some spring crops, like barley, harvest losses showed signs of persistence into the years following a drought. There were significant increases in grain prices during drought years. Farms more specialized in grain production suffered similar losses as more diversified farms but were able to recover losses to a greater extent in the year following a drought, thus appearing to have been less vulnerable to droughts than more diversified farms, especially if they were able to capitalize on the grain price hikes that occurred during most drought years. Even though droughts remain one of the most prominent threats to agriculture in the region, the vulnerability to drought in winter rye and winter wheat appears to have been reduced throughout Scania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Section: Droughts and Their Impact On Harvestsmentioning

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Section: Droughts and Their Impact On Harvestsmentioning

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Labour and the ‘law of one price’: regional wage convergence of farm workers in Sweden, 1757–1980

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2020

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Economic theory predicts that differences in wages for workers with similar skills will decline as labour mobility increase. This prediction is reminiscent of the 'law of one price', the notion that markets, if unfettered, eliminates price differentials of similar commodities across space. But can we really apply the economic logic of the commodity market to the labour market, governed as it is by institutions and politics as well as market forces? In this paper, we have examined the spread in farm workers' wages across Swedish counties in 1757-1980. Besides nominal wages, the paper also offers cost of living indices by county. The paper enquires into sigma convergence and beta convergence. Long-run convergence, by both measures, was massive; the coefficient of variation, for instance, declined from about 28 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to 4 per cent in 1980. Most of the compression, though, occurred in brief episodes rather than continuously. Markets, through labour mobility and trade, and institutions, through collective actions and labour laws, took turns in pushing towards regional convergence. The 'law of one price', we conclude, was not singlehandedly responsible for the elimination of regional wage differentials.

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Peasants and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Transformation of Sweden

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Jordbrukets arbetare: levnadsvillkor och arbetsliv pa landsbygden fran frihetstiden till mitten av 1800-talet

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The impact of drought on northern European pre-industrial agriculture

The impact of drought on northern European pre-industrial agriculture

Labour and the ‘law of one price’: regional wage convergence of farm workers in Sweden, 1757–1980

Peasants and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Transformation of Sweden

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