Help understanding about bruksarbetare
Two questions:
1) If a person is identified as a Bruk. ( I believe bruksarbetare) in household records, is it possible to identify what type of mill they may have worked in?
2) In trying to find information on what life would be like (circa 1829) for a bruksarbetare I only seem to find books/info in Swedish. Is there somewhere to get more info on what a bruksarbetare was and what life was like?
Thank you!
Answers
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Hello Debbie,
- The bruks were usually owned by private industrial companies and there are different types of bruks. You can learn more about the bruks through Swedish Wikipedia at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brukssamhälle. You can see a list of bruk locations at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_bruksorter_i_Sverige. If you are using Google Chrome you can translate the page to English and it will do a pretty good job since the page is written in modern language. What parish was your ancestor living in?
- This depends on the type of bruk, although it's true the majority of books on this subject are in Swedish you could look for articles in JSTOR but you might need library access, see https://www.jstor.org/. If your ancestor was working at a Iron works there is a book in English called Swedish Iron in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, see the entry in WorldCat at https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Swedish+Iron+in+the+Seventeenth+and+Eighteenth+Centuries.
Hope this helps,
Geoff
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Thank you for the information. I had looked at WorldCat, and wasn't very successful. The sv.wikipedia links you provide are helpful- I still need to read through it all.
The ancestor moved quite a bit, to parishes all in Småland (Kronoberg and Jönköping counties): Misteläs, Röslida, Berg, Ramkvilla...
In the entry below there is a different word before his name (Sven Månson), and notes to the right which I can not read. Also, it looks like the line above his name reads Bruks nybygget, but I'm not sure.
Does any of this shed light on anything? (Ramkvilla, Jönköping, A1:4, 1806-1810, p. 52). Thank you!
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