Subtitle

In war and peace

Volume

5

Author(s)

Ola Alsvik

Year

2001

Publisher

Brøttum historielag Ringsaker historielag Veldre historielag

ISBN

8299589509, 8299175623

Pages

499

Part of the work

Ringsakboka

Source

BIBSYS

The book covers the period from 1900 until the major merger of municipalities in 1964.

Introduction:
Body and society in Ringsaker		13

Part one:
The parish tank (1895-1920)

Chapter 1: Two classes - two cultural zones		15

I.	Standstill and movement
	Class society	16
	The landowners én class, big differences	19
	Big farmers and peasants	20
	Farmers face the forces of modernization	22
	Power and geology	24
	A shift in power: From "Eastern Norway" to "Mountain and Fjord Norway"	27
	The old and the new working class	30
	Between labor and capital	33
	"Circus Changé": A unique cultural encounter	35
II.	Old and new lines
	The landowner and the fields	39
	Workers are mobilized	42
	The Stange resolution: Labor rebellion against the Left	45
	The left hesitates	46
	The working class: "...an invincible power, naar de vil..."	48


Chapter 2: Østlandsbygda Ringsaker - Ringsakers lågland		51

I.	The village and the highway
	Career choices at the turn of the century	52
	...and career choices 20 years later	55
	The myth of the passive community	56
	Moelv: The spacious city center	64
	Two attitudes to the "modern" Ringsaker	67
	Attitudes and political action	71
	The national and the local	72
	The party of the big farmers: Det frisinnede Venstre	75
	The political alternatives of the working class	77
II.	Garden and the other way
	"The "househusband mentality"	79
	Cardinal virtues	80

	The good husband - the husband's ambiguous resource	82
	Defense mechanisms: Resistance and devotion	84
	Mealtime and class divide	87
	The difficult aggression	89
	Aggression and the garden ladder	90
	Rank order and farm architecture	98
	Annual cycle	100
	The wheel of life - community and division	115
	Closing - new beginnings	120


Chapter 3: Ringsakers høgland - the hills in the north		122

I.	The example of Messenlia - between tubercles and tourists
	From the porch of Even Sagstuen	123
	Light, air and health	126
	"A first-class cure for pulmonary tuberculosis"	127
	The spa and the clients: Strict discipline and great luxury	130
	The spa and the local community	131
	Tourism and leisure culture	136
	The Ludvik Olestadengen phenomenon and Messenlia's identity	141
II.	The money society conquers the hill towns
	The outfield - the household's resource	145
	Seterbruket - a system in decline	147
	The forest becomes a business	152
	Money and wealth creation	155
	The outfield: From household resource to business operation	159
III.	Economic competition - political division
	Nesningene and the common pasture	161
	Parish by parish division?	163
	Breaks and ruptures - an idea of independence is born	164
	Sharing supporters - open and hidden arguments	165
	New divisions in old settlements	167
	Shareholders: Labor unions and smallholder interests	169
	The supporters of sharing: Big farmers on a treasure hunt?	170
	Industrial development in the main parish: The sharing case in a new light	171
	Summary - the glory years of the hill towns	173


Part two:
The class idea (1920-1935)

Chapter 4: "The difference between people"		174

I.	Crises in business and working life
	The example of Moelven Brug: From good times to bad	177
	Manufacturing in the 20th century - patterns and variations	180
	Agriculture in the first part of the 20s	182
	The forestry crisis	185
	Unemployment - the problem of the working class	187
II.	Class thinking and care thinking
	The causes of unemployment - from moral problem to social probe	189
	New care thinking - new care fields	191
	Care thinking and pension reform	194
	Care thinking and labor market policy	196
	Emergency work - an ambiguous offer	197
III.	"The upper class and the workers"
	The working class in Ringsaker - radicalization and division	200
	The breakthrough of the class idea	202
	Farmers in Ringsaker - from individualists to organizers?	203
	Bourgeois versus socialist politics	205
	Collection and collaboration	207
	Towards a common understanding of the crisis	208
	One crisis - many expressions	209
	Planning policy at ringsakersk	212
	Big plans - small results?	214


Chapter 5: Farm, hamlet and class

I.	Love and home
	An American dreams of Veldre	217
	Belonging to a place	219
	The school - a prerequisite for the modern rural community	222
	Musical life and neighborhood pioneers: The diverse teachers	223
	Sport - between utility and enjoyment	226
	Organizations and neighborhood patriotism	233
	The church and women's culture	235
	Parish patriotism versus neighborhood patriotism	239
II.	From farm to hamlet
	"Skauvægen" and "Prestevægen"	241
	School and garden	242
	Working hours and leisure time separate	245
	Childhood in the interwar period - between the "school bell" and the "farm bell"	247
	Glory years for the hamlet	248
III.	"The "class idea" challenges the neighborhood community
	Moelv - class struggle in the workplace, but equality in leisure	251
	The farming community and the "Great Divide"	256
	Two classes - separate arenas	259
	The working class and the tradition of "Snekkersvekara"	261
	Economic crisis - cultural crisis?	263
	The victory of the neighborhood community?	270


Part three:
Samholdstanken (1935-1964)

Chapter 6: Divide and conquer movements

	Europe, Norway and Ringsaker	272
	Mikkel Sveinhaug's philosophy of history	274
I.	The renaissance of parish separatism
	From political demands to popular movement	276
	Socialist resistance: "Troll be yourself enough"	279
	The case of Veldre	282
	Poor "Kal Ringsaker"	283
	"Simen Brøttum" and Mikkel Rev	285
	"Ola Veldre" and Berger Langmoen	288
	North and south of Brumunda	293
	Populism against party whip	297
II.	The big dream of joining
	Economic growth and city center development	301
	The limitations of the dream: The so-called "Special Interests"	307
	Political alternatives to the "community mindset"	309
	The Labor Party's self-understanding	310
	"Downfall of the Occident"?	313


Chapter 7: War years

I.	drama
	A spring day in 1940	315
	"Dæ vart ittno' ta..."	318
	Actors and pieces	319
	The strategically important Ringsaker	322
	Waiting time and preparations	323
	The village is invaded	324
	April 21, 1940: The day of defeat	328
	War deaths - multiple perspectives	330
II.	Everyday life
	The many images of war	337
	Getting food - a collective project	339
	Unemployment - the problem that disappeared	342
	The age of confusion - resistance or collaboration?	344
	Nasjonal Samling - Ringsaker's only political party	346
	Management according to the "Driver principle"	350
	Alignment and resistance growth	351
	The biggest victims	355
	The boys in the forest - myth and reality	358


Chapter 8: Two settlements

I.	The war settlement and the settlement with the interwar society
	"Dignity, calm, discipline"	367
	Rural people in court	371
	In the gray zone and beyond	375
II.	"The happiest period in Ringsaker's history"
	The entry of machines into daily life	379
	Kubygda Ringsaker	383
	The agricultural revolution	386
	The diverse forest - business route and cultural factor	391
	The industry as the lure	395
	The service industry - female jobs in growth	399
	"Escape from the countryside"	401
III.	Fine culture, mass culture, common culture
	Alf Prøysen - the escape from the countryside and the homesteader mentality	402
	Social and artistic life between Tryggve Andersen and Alf Prøysen	405
	Urban fantasies and rural fantasies	407
	"Asfaltbarna" - foreign birds in the Ringsak environment	409
	Three artists' destinies - Johan Nordhagen, Even Framdal, Arne Stenseng	410
	"The educational importance of sport"	413
	Grassroots sports and star sports - from either-or to both-and	414
	The stars	415
	Sport, politics and the arenas of culture	417
	Musical life and ring awareness	420


Chapter 9: Across all borders

I.	The culture of unity	422
	The liberation mentality and the vision of a socialist society	423
	Political alignment - the opposition's weakness	425
	The strength of the Labor Party	427
	Municipal growth	429
	New and old workspaces	432
	"Party whip" against "Free voters"	435
	Cracks in the consensus culture	436
II.	Where are the boundaries? The road to a large municipality
	Two centers of gravity: Moelv and Brumunddal	439
	"If it has to be, it has to be Brummunendøl"	442
	Moelv patriotism and city center ambitions	444
	Veldre: The village's new growth center	445
	One municipality, two centers, three parishes	448
	"The Brumunddal subdivision problem"	451
	Divided Ringsaker - united Furnes?	453
	The Ringsaksokningene deliver the premises	456
	...the dice serve the conclusion: Large municipality	458
	The crowd gets involved	459
	Towards a large municipality	462
	The new and the old Ringsaker	463


Conclusion:
"The long interwar period"		465
Notes		469
Sources and literature list		479
Name register		482
Keyword index		491

Ringsakboka : village book for Brøttum - Ringsaker - Veldre

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