Registers
While regular censuses do not capture women’s work to any significant degree, poll tax returns (mantalsuppgifter) sometimes include statements about how different household members made a living. At the excise court (accisrätten), some documents that have a lot to say about the trading activities that took place in towns, and records of people who received travel permits specified not only the carrier of the passport but also his or her destination and the reason for going there. Typically, the reason was related to the person’s way of making a living, and it shows the movements of goods entering or leaving towns from day to day.