Carolina Uppenberg

Carolina Uppenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, specializing in economic history with a focus on gender relations and labor organization in pre-industrial agrarian societies. She earned her PhD from the University of Gothenburg in 2018.

Her research examines:

• Gender division of labor in historical contexts
• Work organization among landless groups (servants, crofters)
• Wage systems and household economics in manorial economies
• Crisis impacts on labor relations in 18th-19th century Scandinavia

She currently leads two major projects:

• The benevolent patriarch? (2025-present): Analyzing household labor organization during crises across Baltic regions (1723-1809), funded by Östersjöstiftelsen
• Wages for labor? Investigating servant wages and material conditions in manor economies (1730-1870)

Previous research includes studies on crofter households at Stockholm University and postdoctoral work at Lund University on peasant agency during Swedish modernization.