TY - BOOK ID - 78493384 TI - The state as master PY - 2017 SN - 1526121395 9781526121400 1526121409 9781526121394 9781526100641 PB - Manchester DB - UniCat KW - Women. KW - Sex role in the work environment. KW - Customs administration KW - Women KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Industrial sociology KW - Sex discrimination in employment KW - Sexual harassment KW - Work environment KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Finance, Public KW - Tariff KW - Officials and employees. KW - History KW - Officials and employees KW - Employees KW - 1600-1799 KW - Sweden. KW - Kingdom of Sweden KW - Konungariket Sverige KW - Schweden KW - Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Suecia KW - Suède KW - Suwēden KW - Sverige KW - Svezia KW - Szwecja KW - Zviedrija KW - Zweden KW - スウェーデン KW - Shvet͡sii͡ KW - Social and moral questions KW - Christian world view. KW - early modern European culture. KW - early modern state formation. KW - hostility. KW - mutual help. KW - small-scale market relations. KW - social control. KW - state administration. KW - state servants. KW - state service. KW - violence. KW - women's role. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493384 AB - We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation was subsidized by ordinary people's work and how, at the same time, the changing relationship between state authorities and families shaped the understanding of work and gender. This book is both a fascinating story of the hardships of customs official families in small Swedish towns and an innovative analysis of state formation and its short- and long-term effects. ER -