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economic history, historical social science, wellbeing, labor history, technological change, history of work, history of technology

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United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Biography

I am a historical social scientist of work and wellbeing and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Welfare and Labor Research, Oslo Metropolitan University. My research analyzes job quality and quality of life in the past, focusing on the impacts of technology. I am currently the leader of the Work and Wellbeing in History project, funded by the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

My PhD at the University of Oxford analyzed the impact of innovation on work from the Industrial Revolution to the 20th century. As part of this project, I constructed the first historical measure of job quality, the Historical Job Quality Indicators

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Employment (1)

OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University: Oslo, NO

2022-03 to present | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Work Research Institute (AFI))
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

(History; Merton College)
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ORCID Integration at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2017 to 2022 | DPhil, Economic and Social History
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University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2014 to 2015 | MSc with Distinction, Economic and Social History (History)
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Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, US

2009 to 2013 | BA, History and Government
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Works (8)

Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning

2024-12-27 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtae049
Contributors: Benjamin Schneider
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Job Quality in History

2024-12-16 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/ereh/heae022
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Technological change and work

European Review of Economic History
2024-05-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/ereh/head028
Contributors: Benjamin Schneider
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Claudia Goldin, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), pp. xiv + 325, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691201788.

Journal of the History of Economic Thought
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S1053837222000268
Contributors: Benjamin Schneider
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Technological Change and Work

2022 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work

Economic History of Developing Regions
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606
Part of ISSN: 2078-0389
Part of ISSN: 2078-0397
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Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen

The Economic History Review
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12963
Part of ISSN: 0013-0117
Part of ISSN: 1468-0289
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Spinning the industrial revolution

The Economic History Review
2019-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12693
Part of ISSN: 0013-0117
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