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AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.
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B) Tenement-labourers (Statare) are a kind of servants who, as a rule,
are married, and who do not board and lodge with their employer, but
receive, besides earnest-money, yearly wages, dwelling-room, and firing,
a certain amount »in kind» (Stat), as it is called, i. e. of grain,
root-crops, and milk: to these were formerly added comestibles, etc., the
monetary value of which, however, is now usually added to the yearly wages.
Crofter’s Cottage.
It is usually the husband who in this case is the hired labourer, and
hardly ever the wife. (Unmarried women are, however, in some cases employed
as tenement-labourers). But, where it can be done, the owner of the estate very
willingly pays certain day-wages for a small number of days’ labour, both to the
wife and to those of the children who are big enough to work. But nowadays,
the wife of the tenement-labourer partakes less and less in the work. Even the
milking, which was the last thing required of her, now year by year becomes
more and more the work of the men.
The statistics respecting the number of tenement-labourers are defective, but
it is at any rate rapidly increasing. An estimate makes the present figures to
exceed rather than to fall short of 40,000. About the year 1825, they were
estimated as being only about 9,000.
C) Crofters (Torpare) — together with the members of their own
households — make up the group of agricultural labourers next in
importance to the servants. The crofter is, in Sweden, a kind of tenant
of smaller, cultivated plots of land (torp) provided with premises, with
the contract obligation of performing days’ labour on the mother-estate.
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