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Statare

Agriculture-employed person in Sweden

Statare were contract-workers living under serf-like conditions in Swedish agriculture who, contrary to other farmhands, were expected to be married,

Statare

Tenant farmer

Farmer whose land is owned by a landlord

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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Proletarian literature

Literature mainly written for or by the working class

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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Jan Fridegård

Swedish writer (1897–1968)

was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. Fridegård grew up among statare in Uppland. He later held various jobs, including joining the Swedish cavalry

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Truck wages

Form of payment

store. Company store Company town Wage slavery Debt bondage Truck Acts Statare - Sweden Coal scrip Token coins Notes G.W. Hilton (1958), The Truck Act

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Ivar Lo-Johansson

Swedish writer

working-class people. He described the situation of the Swedish land-workers, statare, in his novels, short stories, and journalism, which encouraged the adoption

Ivar Lo-Johansson

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Swedish literature

(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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Elsie Johansson

Swedish writer (1931–2025)

proletarian writer. Elsie Johansson was born in Vendel as the fifth child of a statare. Her father would later find work as a lumberjack and construction worker

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Farm Workers Union of Central Sweden

Trade union in Sweden

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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Arvid Olsson

Swedish politician and trade unionist

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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Farm Workers Union of Uppland

Trade union in Sweden

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

Farm Workers Union of Uppland

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Moa Martinson

Swedish writer (1890–1964)

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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