Technological unemployment in the British industrial revolution: the destruction of hand spinning

This paper analyzes the elimination of hand spinning in Britain during the Industrial Revolution and shows that it was one of the earliest examples of large-scale technological unemployment. First, it uses new empirical evidence and sources to estimate spinning employment before the innovations of t...

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Hlavní autor: Schneider, B
Médium: Working paper
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: University of Oxford 2023