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Kerstin Enflo. Foto.

Kerstin Enflo

Professor

Kerstin Enflo. Foto.

More Power to the People: Electriciy Adoption, Technological Change and Labour Conflict

Författare

  • Jakob Molinder
  • Tobias Karlsson
  • Kerstin Enflo

Summary, in English

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 proximity to hydropowered plants shaped the electricity network independently of previous local conditions, we estimate the impact of electricity on labor strikes. Our results indicate that electricity adoption preceded an increase in conflicts, but strikes were of an offensive nature and most common in sectors with increasing labor demand. This suggests that electrification provided workers with a stronger bargaining position from which they could voice their claims.

Avdelning/ar

  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

481-512

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Economic History

Volym

81

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Economic History

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • From Sundsvall to Saltsjöbaden: A regional perspective on strikes at the Swedish labor market
  • Labour Conflicts by location 1859–1938

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0022-0507