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Benjamin Schneider

Benjamin Schneider

Visiting address
  • Holbergs gate 1, 0166 Oslo
E-mail
  • benjamin.schneider@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

I am a historical social scientist of work and wellbeing. I have a DPhil in Economic History from the University of Oxford, where my thesis analyzed the impact of technological change on work from 1750–1910 using the first index of historical job quality. My previous research analyzed living standards and the incentives for innovation in the British Industrial Revolution.

As a member of the OsloMet Centre for Research on Pandemics and Society (PANSOC), I am researching the effects of the 1918–20 influenza pandemic and COVID-19 on work-related wellbeing. My other projects include further historical investigations of job quality and technological unemployment.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Schneider, Benjamin (2026). Meaningful Work in Historical Perspective. Nikolova, Milena (Ed.). Work Meaning and Motivation. p. 115-149. Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-23826-9_5

Schneider, Benjamin ; Whittle, Jane (2026). Where is place in the history of work? Worksites, workspaces, and the home-work nexus. Explorations in economic history (EEH). Vol. 100.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2026.101752

Schneider, Benjamin (2026). Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning. Past & Present. Vol. 270.
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae049

Dimka, Jessica L.; Schneider, Benjamin ; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (2025). A systematic review to understand the long-term mental health effects of influenza pandemics. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948251391601

Schneider, Benjamin (2025). Job Quality in History. European Review of Economic History. Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heae022

Schneider, Benjamin (2025). Living Standards and Development Paths: Factory Systems and Job Quality during US Industrialization, 1790-1840. International Review of Social History.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859025000033

Joaquin-Damas, Elienai; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik ; Schneider, Benjamin ; Sánchez-Hernández, Beatriz E.; Patishtán-López, Amanda; Bleichrodt, Amanda; Chowell-Puente, Gerardo (2024). Evaluating COVID-19 impact, vaccination, birth registration, and underreporting in a predominantly indigenous population in Chiapas, Mexico. BMC Infectious Diseases. Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-10156-y

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Technological change and work. European Review of Economic History. Vol. 28.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/head028

Dimka, Jessica; Schneider, Benjamin ; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (2023). Protocol for a systematic review to understand the long-term mental-health effects of influenza pandemics in the pre-COVID-19 era. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231217362

Schneider, Benjamin (2022). Review of Claudia Goldin, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity. Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET).
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000268



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Dissemination

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). The Past and Future of Work: How History can Inform the Age of Automation. 1st Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History. Norsk Økonomisk Historisk Forening.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3548805

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Technological Change and the Division of Labor: Opportunity and Inequality in the Industrial Revolution. Economic History Seminar. University of Gothenburg.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4756706

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Does Innovation Augment or Replace Labor? Railroad Firemen and the Automatic Stoker. 2023 Social Science History Association Conference. Social Science History Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4943393

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). The Past and Future of Work: How History can Inform the Age of Automation. CESifo Summer Institute: Technological Change and the Future of Work. ifo Institute, SPRU, University of Sussex.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4549085

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Technological Change, Opportunity, and Inequality: Job Stratification in the US Transportation Revolution. 2023 European Social Science History Conference. International Institute of Social History.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4207113

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Tasks, the Division of Labor, and Job Quality: The Impacts of Macroinventions in US Transport, 1750–1850. 2023 Social Science History Association Conference. Social Science History Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5051255

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Tasks, the Division of Labor, and Job Quality: The Impacts of Macroinventions in US Transport, 1750–1850. Stockholm University Economic History Seminar. Stockholm University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3232347

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Work in the 1918–20 Influenza Pandemic in the US. 2023 Social Science History Association Conference. Social Science History Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4048852

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Does Innovation Augment or Replace Labor? Railroad Firemen and the Automatic Stoker. 2023 European Historical Economics Society Conference. European Historical Economics Society.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3245734

Schneider, Benjamin (2023). Technological Change and Work. 2023 European Historical Economics Society Conference. European Historical Economics Society.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4236224



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