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

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

1. Introduction: Encounters and Trading Practices.- 2. Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood.- 3. Dressed for Peddling: Dalkullor, Marketing and Practices of Tradition.- 4. Rag Collectors: Mobility and Barter in a Circular Flow of Goods.- 5. Unruly and Submissive Marketgoers: Peasants Practicing Trade and Forming Markets.- 6. Gifts, Feasts, and the Surplus of Friendship: Practices in a Remembered Economy of Petty Trading.- 7. Mobile Sex Trade: Fairs and the Livelihoods of Female Itinerant Sex Workers in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland.- 8. Exhibiting the Extraordinary Body: Six Itinerant Performers and Their Livelihood in the Nordic Countries, 1864-1912.- 9. "The Whole World Had the Sound of the Barrel Organ": Representations of Fairs in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1870s to the 1910s.- 10. "Threatening Livelihoods": Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire.- 11. Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading.- 12. Forced into Trade Out of Necessity: Working-Class Narratives on Petty Trade.- 13. Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland.- 14. Conclusions: Dealing with Difference.