ABSTRACT
The transformation of practices characterizing daily life in Stockholm was one with new or altered power relations and modified forms of language and knowledge, of individual and collective consciousness. This chapter explores one of those forms of language that developed among the city's working and periodically employed classes. The production, distribution, and consumption practices through which late-nineteenth-century Stockholm was constituted, reproduced, and transformed were interwoven by human movement along the ground and through seconds, minutes, and hours. Stockholm itself went by other names among those commanding more than a few words of the city's popular language of spatial orientation. To some it was simply byn, or the village, a term perhaps more employed by in-migrants who had resided locally long enough to grow comfortable with their new settings. Such individuals, presumably, were therefore able to draw a parallel between the familiar atmosphere of their customary sphere of daily activity and that of the rural settlement from which they came.
