{
  "id": 6883695,
  "title": "Labor reallocation during the Industrial Revolution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/labor-reallocation-during-the-industrial-revolution",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-12T07:28:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Marginal Revolution",
    "slug": "marginal-revolution",
    "url": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/labor-reallocation-during-the-industrial-revolution.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New technologies swept through Britain during the Second Industrial Revolution, destroying old jobs and creating new ones. We know little about how workers reallocated. Using 170 million full-count British census observations (1851-1911), I construct new task-level data on occupation and investigate English bootmaking as it mechanized. 153,000 artisanal jobs disappeared as skills became obsolete;…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}