South-Sweden Probate Inventory Database, 1570–1860
This new database of 3,250 probate inventories from both towns and countryside in southern Sweden investigates the development of household productive capacity and consumption from the late 1500s to the 1860s. Both labourers and farmers improved their material living standards – as measured by the contents of probate inventories – but the labouring households’ ownership of means of production decr
