Statare were contract-workers in Swedish agriculture who, contrary to other farmhands, were expected to be married, were provided with a simple dwelling...

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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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...

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

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...

(Five Young Men). Swedish agriculture had a system with labourers called statare, who were paid in kind only, with product and housing, comparable with...

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...

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...

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...

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...