Publication: Rage against the machines: new technology and violent unrest in industrializing England
Rage against the machines: new technology and violent unrest in industrializing England
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Caprettini, B., & Voth, H.-J. (2018). Rage against the machines: new technology and violent unrest in industrializing England: Vol. 2018/2 (UBS Center Policy Brief Series). UBS International Center of Economics in Society, University of Zurich. https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/de/publications/policy_briefs.html
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Under what circumstances might the adoption of labor-saving technology lead to extreme social instability? This policy brief examines the case of the Captain Swing riots in the industrializing England of the 1830s, bringing new insights to this old episode by collecting original data on the diffusion of the threshing machine, an innovation that led to severe labor unrest in wheat-growing parts of the country. The evidence illustrates that while new technologies typically boost output overall, not everyone benefits – and the losers may
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Caprettini, B., & Voth, H.-J. (2018). Rage against the machines: new technology and violent unrest in industrializing England: Vol. 2018/2 (UBS Center Policy Brief Series). UBS International Center of Economics in Society, University of Zurich. https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/de/publications/policy_briefs.html
