| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11800 |
| DP11800 Rage Against the Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in Industrializing England | |
| Hans-Joachim Voth; Bruno Caprettini | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-22 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Can new technology cause social instability and unrest? We examine the famous `Captain Swing' riots in 1830s England. Newly-collected data on threshing machine discusion shows that labor-saving technology was associated with more riots. We instrument technology adoption with the share of heavy soils in a parish: IV estimates show that threshing machines were an important cause of unrest. Where alternative employment opportunities softened the blow of new technology, there was less rioting. In areas affected by the Swing riots in 1830-32, technology adoption and patenting rates slowed down for decades thereafter. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History ; Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Labor-saving technology Social instability Riots Welfare support Agricultural technology Factor prices and technological change |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11800-0 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540612 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hans-Joachim Voth,Bruno Caprettini. DP11800 Rage Against the Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in Industrializing England. 2017. |
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