Sweden experienced a remarkable economic growth in the period 1890-1930, to a large extent due to a very successful adaption of core elements of the Second Industrial Revolution such as electricity and mechanical engineering. This thesis aims at discussing changes in the balance between the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labour during the first phase of the Second Industrial Revolution. The thesis shows hat the rapid development of the Swedish engineering industry was facilitated by the fact that substantial human capital had been accumulated in the engineering industry by the end of the 1800s. The combination of a compulsory elementary education, a relatively large interest in supplementary formal education among the workshop employees, most often in the form of lower technical education, and knowledge based on experience and influence from abroad meant that there were good prerequisites for the new technology to be put into practice and developed within the expanding indus ...   read more ...

Sweden experienced a remarkable economic growth in the period 1890-1930, to a large extent due to a very successful adaption of core elements of the Second Industrial Revolution such as electricity and mechanical engineering. This thesis aims at discussing changes in the balance between the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labour during the first phase of the Second Industrial Revolution. The thesis shows hat the rapid development of the Swedish engineering industry was facilitated by the fact that substantial human capital had been accumulated in the engineering industry by the end of the 1800s. The combination of a compulsory elementary education, a relatively large interest in supplementary formal education among the workshop employees, most often in the form of lower technical education, and knowledge based on experience and influence from abroad meant that there were good prerequisites for the new technology to be put into practice and developed within the expanding industry. The most important wage-determining factor was experience, but formal education had started to gain an increasing importance. read less ...

Lönande lärande : teknologisk förändring, yrkesskicklighet och lön i svensk verkstadsindustri omkring 1900 / Fay Lundh Nilsson. 

Lönande lärande : teknologisk förändring, yrkesskicklighet och lön i svensk verkstadsindustri omkring 1900 / Fay Lundh Nilsson. read less ...

Lund studies in economic history 40 

Lund studies in economic history 40 read less ...