chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The political economy of the early modern state -- chapter 3 The industrial revolution: a threat or a promise? -- chapter 4 Industrialization in Europe, part 1 -- chapter 5 Industrialization in Europe, part 2 -- chapter 6 Industrialization in the first...

In historical discourse business history and the history of work are most often treated as two separate fields of enquiry, with different agendas, theoretical fundaments and sometimes also methodologies. This paper argues that this is a misnomer. Although division of labour in the social...

Three main theoretical positions towards state intervention and regulation are discussed in relation to the case of Swedish infrastructure. The positive, the normative, and the political transaction cost approaches are examined in relation to the historic development of regulatory systems in...