Vol. 22, num. 1 (February 2026). Special issue: Gender in economic history

ISSN-L: 1698-6989

DOI: 10.33231/ihe

ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NODERIVATIVES 4.0 INTERNATIONAL (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) © The Author(s) 2026

Women and Children in Factories: Did Mechanization Increasethe Demand for Low-Cost Labor in Sweden?

Yoshihiro Sato

Svante Prado

Suvi Heikkuri

AGRADECIMIENTOS:

This paper has been presented at the EHES, Groningen 2022; SEHM, Gothenburg 2022; and EHS, Warwick 2023. We thank the participants for insightful suggestions. We would like to acknowledge the feedback received from Jakob Molinder, Anna Missiaia, Christer Lundh, Faustine Perrin, Alessandro Nuvolari as well as from two anonymous referees.

FINANCIACIÓN:

Svante Prado acknowledges funding from Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, project grant 2016-02148 and 2018-01853).