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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.

Women. --- Sex role in the work environment. --- Customs administration --- Women --- Sex role in the work environment --- Industrial sociology --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Sexual harassment --- Work environment --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Finance, Public --- Tariff --- Officials and employees. --- History --- Officials and employees --- Employees --- 1600-1799 --- Sweden. --- Kingdom of Sweden --- Konungariket Sverige --- Schweden --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Suecia --- Suède --- Suwēden --- Sverige --- Svezia --- Szwecja --- Zviedrija --- Zweden --- スウェーデン --- Shvet͡sii͡ --- Social and moral questions --- Christian world view. --- early modern European culture. --- early modern state formation. --- hostility. --- mutual help. --- small-scale market relations. --- social control. --- state administration. --- state servants. --- state service. --- violence. --- women's role.