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

Jutta Ahlbeck is a Researcher and Docent of History of Ideas. She is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University and University of Oulu, Finland.Ann-Catrin Östman is a Senior Lecturer and Docent of History. She is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University, Finland.Eija Stark is a Researcher and Docent of Folklore Studies. She is the Development Manager of the Finnish Literature Society, 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.