Publisher's Synopsis
The long nineteenth century was a period of changing modes of labor and
consumption. New livelihood opportunities opened up for the landless
and poor as globalization made labor mobile. At the same time, the circulation
and exchange of various goods increased considerably, which
affected trade on the global, regional, and local levels. This multidisciplinary
collection, Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern
Europe, 1820-1960: Forgotten Livelihoods (henceforth Forgotten
Livelihoods), uncovers one important yet neglected form of these emerging
itinerant livelihoods-namely, petty trade-and how it was practiced
in Northern Europe during the period 1820-1960 (see map in Fig. 1.1).
Transnational and interregional relations characterized this sparsely.
