This chapter discusses the ways in which households were connected to the expanding labour market in the period 1720 to 1880 and, vice versa, the ways in which the labour market was deeply dependent on the paid and unpaid work of households. The chapter does not use verb data and instead builds on four case studies: the Sala silver mine, the linen factory at Kättsta, the Västerås steam brewery, and the stud farm at Strömsholm (all in Västmanland, Sweden). The chapter points out how the worksites combined elements from the modern labour market (e.g., set working hours, contracts, fixed wages) with elements from early modern working life (e.g., patriarchal labour relations, worksite hierarchies modelled on the household, blurred boundaries between working for an employer and self-employment). The chapter discloses that the two-supporter model could take many forms and suggests a new terminology to accommodate this diversity and facilitate the analysis of ‘the total social organisation of work’ (Miriam Glucksmann).