The Editors : Lars Magnusson is Chair and Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also works for the National Institute for Working Life, Sweden and is chairman of the labour market programme board of the SALTSA programme. He has written extensively on the history of industrialisation, the history of economic ideas and industrial relations in Sweden. Jan Ottosson is Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University.
He also works for the National Institute for Working Life, Sweden. He has written mainly about various aspects of the service sector from a historical perspective. Currently he is involved in research regarding unemployment in Sweden during the 1990s. They are both editors of the refereed journal Economic and Industrial Democracy.