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    Statare were contract-workers in Swedish agriculture who, contrary to other farmhands, were expected to be married, were provided with a simple dwelling...
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    tenant farmers to farm laborers (statare) hired on yearlong contracts, paid in-kind. The lives of torpare and statare were described by prominent Swedish...
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    store. Company store Company town Wage slavery Debt bondage Truck Acts Statare - Sweden Coal scrip Notes G.W. Hilton (1958), The Truck Act of 1831. The...
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  • natt i juli ("A night in July", 1933) is about a strike among statare, and depicts statare in a much rawer way than Lo-Johansson. Eyvind Johnson and Harry...
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    working-class people. He described the situation of the Swedish land-workers, statare, in his novels, short stories, and journalism, which encouraged the adoption...
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  • As a result of the pre-foundation agitations the average annual wage of statare was raised by approximately 40 Swedish krona. The founding congress of...
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  • (Five Young Men). Swedish agriculture had a system with labourers called statare, who were paid in kind only, with product and housing, comparable with...
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  • Uppland could partly be explained by the fact that living conditions for statare were worse in Uppland than in other regions of the country. The Uppland...
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    one of the foremost leaders of the Socialist Party. Olsson hailed from a statare family. He became a gunsmith for the Swedish Navy and a labour activist...
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    Alfred Karlsson, who she described as an alcoholic. He was a sometime statare who worked odd jobs in the countryside outside Norrköping. He married Swartz...
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