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Manorial economy and corvée labour in southern Sweden 1650–1850

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This essay is an inquiry into manorial production in Scania. Its growth was dependent on the long‐term development of European grain prices. When prices increased landlords were encouraged to put more land under the plough. The estates’ main income came, to an increasing extent, from demesne production, which finally dominated the income profile. The peasants’ most important contribution to the landlords became, in most cases, their corvée labour, and their uncertain tenure rights were illustrated with great clarity in the continuing evictions, which were accelerated in the nineteenth century with the aim of expanding the demesne.

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  • Mats Olsson, 2006. "Manorial economy and corvée labour in southern Sweden 1650–1850," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 59(3), pages 481-497, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:59:y:2006:i:3:p:481-497
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00336.x
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    1. Martin Dribe & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson, 2009. "Land transmission among tenants on noble land – the case of southern Sweden, 1766-1895," Working Papers 9022, Economic History Society.
    2. Geloso, Vincent & Kufenko, Vadim & Arsenault-Morin, Alex P., 2023. "The lesser shades of labor coercion: The impact of seigneurial tenure in nineteenth-century Quebec," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    3. Patrick Svensson & Mats Olsson, 2013. "The landlord lag: productivity on peasant farms and landlord demesnes, Sweden 1700-1860," Working Papers 13016, Economic History Society.
    4. Lindgren, Erik & Pettersson-Lidbom, Per & Tyrefors, Björn, 2020. "The Causal Effect of Political Power on the Provision of Public Education: Evidence from a Weighted Voting System," Working Paper Series 1315, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 29 May 2021.
    5. Kathryn E. Gary & Cristina Victoria Radu, 2019. "The impact of border changes and protectionism on real wages in early modern Scania," Working Papers 0166, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).

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