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Economic history in Sweden

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Topic: Economic History

Sort Desciption: Sweden Economic History and History are different academic disciplines ..... Economic history in Sweden does not only deal with Swedish economic history. ...

Content Inside: Economic history in Sweden some recent research trends Johan Sderberg In: NEHA-Bulletin Tijdschrift voor de economische geschiedenis in Nederland 9 (1995) no. 1 p. 21-33 In this attempt at an overview of recent writing in economic history in Sweden it will not be possible to cover all the relevant literature. Rather some research fields will be discussed where I feel that particularly important contributions have been made during the last few years. In Sweden Economic History and History are different academic disciplines representing separate departments at the universities. Though some historians are doing work which may well be labelled economic history the discussion here will be limited to research carried out within the discipline of economic history proper. Many of the works that will be mentioned are published in Swedish but contain good summaries in English. The labour process industrialization and business history Research on the history of the labour process has been one of the most expansive fields in Swedish economic history. A large research project successfully carried out at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University has attacked the question how the conditions of the workers was changing during the industralization from the late nineteenth century onwards. Several volumes have been published which together give a new picture of the transformations of work during the industrialization. 1 All these works analyze the labour process in great detail. More importantly they question established views of what was going on during the industrialization period. Harry Braverman's famous thesis of the degradation of work under capitalism has been one source of theoretical inspiration. His views are however critically examined and in general they are not seen as a reasonable approximation of the changes actually observed. The view of a straightforward process of mechanization leading to the subdivision of work into ever more speciali ...

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