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Sweden Occupation: Backstugusittare (view source)
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During the 1600 and 1700's the poorest, or sometimes outcast and despised, lived in the backstuga's. The "social status" improved slightly during the 1800's, when many laborers moved to simple cottages. With the Laga Skifte in 1827, the number of backstugusittare's increased. The reason was that many farming households (landowners) were moved out of villages which created new demands upon the land used by the torpare's (tenant farmers.) Many torpare's became day laborers, and moved to backstuga's. In the late 1800's there were as many backstugusittare's as torpare's in Sweden. | During the 1600 and 1700's the poorest, or sometimes outcast and despised, lived in the backstuga's. The "social status" improved slightly during the 1800's, when many laborers moved to simple cottages. With the Laga Skifte in 1827, the number of backstugusittare's increased. The reason was that many farming households (landowners) were moved out of villages which created new demands upon the land used by the torpare's (tenant farmers.) Many torpare's became day laborers, and moved to backstuga's. In the late 1800's there were as many backstugusittare's as torpare's in Sweden. | ||
Along the west coast of Sweden they used the title "strandsittare" (day laborers who made a living from fishing.) | Along the west coast of Sweden they used the title "strandsittare" (day laborers who made a living from fishing.) | ||
In Skåne, Blekinge and parts of Halland such a cottage was called "gatehus" and a backstugusittare was calle "gatehusman". | In Skåne, Blekinge and parts of Halland such a cottage was called "gatehus" and a backstugusittare was calle "gatehusman". | ||
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=== References === | === References === | ||
Swedish Wikipedia Community. [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstugusittare Backstugusittare]. Wikipedia, July 2012. | Swedish Wikipedia Community. [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstugusittare Backstugusittare]. Wikipedia, July 2012. | ||
Nationalencyklopedin. [http://www.ne.se/gatehus Gatehus]. NE.se, August 2012. | |||
Nationalencyklopedin. [http://www.ne.se/utanvidsfolk Utanvidsfolk]. NE.se, August 2012. | Nationalencyklopedin. [http://www.ne.se/utanvidsfolk Utanvidsfolk]. NE.se, August 2012. | ||
[[Category:Swedish_Occupations]] | [[Category:Swedish_Occupations]] | ||