More power to the people: electricity adoption, technological change, and labor conflict

J Molinder, T Karlsson, K Enflo - The Journal of Economic History, 2021 - cambridge.org
Will technical change spur conflicts in the labor market? In this study, we examine electricity
adoption in Sweden during the first decades of the twentieth century. Exploiting that …

More power to the people: Electricity adoption, technological change and social conflict

J Molinder, T Karlsson, K Enflo - 2019 - portal.research.lu.se
There is a wide-spread concern that technical change may spur social conflicts, especially if
workers are replaced with machines. To empirically analyze whether job destruction drives …

Technological change, skills, and occupational structure in Sweden, 1870-1950

S Heikkuri - 2024 - gupea.ub.gu.se
This dissertation explores occupations and skills in the Swedish labor markets during the
industrial breakthrough. It encompasses an introduction and four research papers, each …

[PDF][PDF] ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORY

JE Taylor - 2017 - academia.edu
ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORY Page 1 This article was published on-line on March 24,
2016 Essays in ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORY The Journal of the Economic …