Taking work home: Labour dynamics of women industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution

Abstract: This dissertation provides new individual-level evidence of the labour market decisions made by an important but little studied segment of the labour market: industrial homeworkers. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods with data from unconventional sources, it tells us about the conditions of homeworkers as individuals, as parts of families and households, and as a group in the labour market.

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Nilsson's dissertation was awarded with the Rudolf Meidner award.