Martin Dackling

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1900-talet sgs ibland vara familjejordbrukets rhundrade. Trots att landsbygden frndrades i grunden framstlls ofta sjlva bondefamiljen bestende av man, hustru och barn som intakt. Alla jordbruk drevs dock inte av familjer av den traditionella sorten. Ett alternativ var att tv eller flera av barnen tillsammans vertog grden, fortsatte bo ihop och frblev ogifta. Men hur vanliga var sdana syskonjordbruk? Hur fungerade de och vilka var motiven bakom syskonens levnadsval? Med hjlp av hushllsanalyser, statliga utredningar och intervjuer tecknar historikern Martin Dackling i Istllet fr ktenskap fr frsta gngen historien om syskonjordbruken. Han visar att de varken var ovanliga eller utgjorde kvarlevor frn ett ldre bondesamhlle. Frn att tidigare knappt ha existerat blev det frn slutet av 1800-talet allt vanligare att brder och systrar drev grdar ihop och under 1930- och 1940-talet var de ett mycket vanligt inslag p svensk landsbygd. Efter 1950 blev de dock successivt allt ovanligare. I boken frs en diskussion om varfr syskonjordbruken uppstod och Dackling pekar bde p kulturella, sociala och ekonomiska delfrklaringar. En viktig omstndighet var ocks att de flesta syskonen frblev ogifta. Krleksrelationer saknades inte, men gifterml var svrt att kombinera med flera hemmaboende syskon. Krleks- och syskonrelationerna stod i ett komplicerat frhllande till varandra och p mnga grdar blev syskonjordbruk ett alternativ till ktenskap. *** The 20th century is sometimes said to be the century of the family farm. Although the countryside changed fundamentally, the farming family - consisting of husband, wife and children - is often seen as intact. However, all farms were not driven by families of the traditional type. One alternative was that two or more of the children took over the farm together, continued to live in the same household and remained unmarried. But how common were such sibling farms? How did they work and what were the motives behind the siblings' choice to live together? Based on household analyzes, government reports and interviews, historian Martin Dackling in Instead of marriage sketches the history of the sibling farms. He shows that they were neither unusual nor remains of an older peasant society. From the beginning of the 19th century, it became increasingly common for brothers and sisters to take over the farm together and in the 1930s and 1940s sibling farms were a common feature of Swedish countryside. However, after 1950 they became increasingly unusual. The book discusses why the sibling farms arose and Dackling points to cultural, social and economic explanations. An important circumstance was also that most of the siblings remained unmarried. Love relations were not missing, but marriage was difficult to combine with siblings living in the same household. Love relations and sibling relations were in a complicated correlation with each other, and on many farms, living with siblings became an alternative to marriage.