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Uppgifter om mäns och kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i respass utfärdade av Landskansliet vid Länsstyrelsen i Västmanlands län,1763-1837, har transkriberats och analyserats, och källtext och källtrogna variabler registrerats bokstavstroget, av Rosemarie Fiebranz,  inom forskningsprojektet Gender and Work.

Kvalitetskontroll är utförd av Jonas Lindström.

Analys av källmaterialet har gjorts av Rosemarie Fiebranz inom projektet Gender and Work https://www.uu.se/gaw

Materialet är sökbart i databasen GAW - https://gotham.ddb.umu.se/

Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in early modern Sweden. On the level of concrete tasks, however, there was both difference and similarity between the genders. Marital status exerted a strong influence on women’s sustenance activities, creating a clear distinction between unmarried and ever-married. These patterns were probably the effect of a labour legislation that forced young people without independent means to offer their bodies and time to masters and mistresses.

Försörjningsaktiviteter av kvinnor i Kållands häradsrätts protokoll (Västergötland), år 1697 och år 1700, har analyserats och källtext och källtrogna variabler har registrerats bokstavstroget av Benny Jacobsson inom forskningsprojektet Gender and Work. 

Kvalitetskontroll är utförd av Christopher Pihl och Rosemarie Fiebranz.

Insamling och analys av källunderlaget har gjorts av Christopher Pihl inom projektet Gender and Work https://www.gaw.hist.uu.se/what-can-i-find-in-gaw/kallunderlag/kalland--haradsratten--1697--1700/

Materialet är sökbart i databasen GAW - http://gaw.ddb.umu.se:8080/gaw-query/query/index.xhtml

Uppgifter om mäns och kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i en bondedagbok, Pehr Janssons dagbok, Vittinge (Uppland), har registrerats källtroget av Rosemarie Fiebranz inom forskningsprojektet Gender and Work. 

Kvalitetskontroll är utförd av Sofia Ling.

Analys av källmaterialet har gjorts av Rosemarie Fiebranz inom projektet Gender and Work https://www.gaw.hist.uu.se/vad-kan-jag-hitta-i-gaw/kallunderlag/vittinge--uppland---pehr-janssons-dagbok-1795-1827/

Materialet är sökbart i databasen GAW - http://gaw.ddb.umu.se:8080/gaw-query/query/index.xhtml

Due to a lack of NLP tools adapted to the task of analysing historical text, historiansand other researchers in humanities often need to manually search through largevolumes of text in order to find certain pieces of information of interest to theirresearch. In this paper, we present a web-based tool for automatic informationextraction from historical text, with the aim of facilitating this time-consuming process.We describe 1) the underlying architecture of the system, based on spellingnormalisation succeeded by tagging and parsing using tools available for the modernlanguage, 2) a prototypical graphical user interface used by the historians, and 3) athorough manual evaluation of the tool performed by the actual users, i.e. the historians,when applied to the specific task of extracting and presenting verb phrases describingwork in Early Modern Swedish text. The main contribution is the manual evaluation,which takes both quantitative and qualitative aspects into account, and is compared toautomatic evaluation results. We show that spelling normalisation is successful for thetask of tagging and lemmatisation, meaning that the words analysed as verbs by the toolare mostly considered as verbs by the historians as well. We also point out the furtherwork needed for improving parsing and ranking performance, in order to make the toolreally useful in the extraction process.

Studies of rural women’s work in early modern Europe face many challenges. There is no occupational statistics to rely on. Except for the rather blank terms ‘servant’ and ‘maid’, few women in the countryside had occupational titles. The overwhelming part of their work was unpaid and has not left any traces in payrolls and alike sources. And because early modern sources pay most attention to households (which are usually headed by men) and to formal institutions (such as guilds), they conceal much of women’s work. This paper presents the verb-oriented method used by the Gender and Work project, which was designed so as to go around these problems. The term ‘verb-oriented’ singles out what sort of data is of interest. Instead of looking at designators or property as clues to what people made for a living, focus is on descriptions of practices or activities, e.g. ‘A made hay’, ‘B fished herring’ and ‘C sold herring’. Such evidence is fragmentary and dispersed. Yet, it can be found, collected and systematized. The verb-oriented approach is a wide and open one. It does not, a priori, position women’s work in the context of a family economy or start from the household as the given unit of production. Instead, the organizational framework of women’s work needs to be investigated empirically. Nor does the approach confine itself to a certain sector or branch. Instead, sources are gleaned for evidence of all sorts of work, including both what has been regarded as reproductive tasks (e.g. child care) and what may be considered production proper. The outcome is a view on women’s work in rural areas which stresses multiple employments and flexibility.