Svante Prado is a researcher in economic history at the Department of Economy and Society at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses on Swedish wages and labour markets in historical perspective and international comparisons of labour productivity.Jorge E. Álvarez Scanniello is Professor and Co-ordinator of the Economic and Social History Programme, Social Sciences Faculty, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is also Researcher of the National Agency of Innovation and Research, Uruguay.

• 1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado.- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia.- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth.- 3. Foreign trade and economic growth in Scandinavia, Australasia and the Rio de la Plata region, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 4. Structural change, industrial growth and economic development in the Nordic and Southern Settler Societies, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 5. Long-term comparative levels of labour productivity in manufacturing, c. 1890–2010; Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado.- Part 3: Dimensions of inequality.- 6. Wage differentials, 1920–2010; Svante Prado, Thales Pereira and Jakob Molinder.- 7. Land-ownership systems and agrarian income distribution in Denmark, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalisation Era; Jorge Álvarez and María de las Mercedes Menéndez.- 8. Democratisation and the rise of the welfare state; Erik Bengtsson and Marc Morgan.- 9. The role of education in modernisation drives in Brazil and in Sweden; Thomas Kang and Anders Nilsson.

Svante Prado is a researcher in economic history at the Department of Economy and Society at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses on Swedish wages and labour markets in historical perspective and international comparisons of labour productivity.Jorge E. Álvarez Scanniello is Professor and Co-ordinator of the Economic and Social History Programme, Social Sciences Faculty, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is also Researcher of the National Agency of Innovation and Research, Uruguay.

• 1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado.- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia.- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth.- 3. Foreign trade and economic growth in Scandinavia, Australasia and the Rio de la Plata region, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 4. Structural change, industrial growth and economic development in the Nordic and Southern Settler Societies, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin.- 5. Long-term comparative levels of labour productivity in manufacturing, c. 1890–2010; Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado.- Part 3: Dimensions of inequality.- 6. Wage differentials, 1920–2010; Svante Prado, Thales Pereira and Jakob Molinder.- 7. Land-ownership systems and agrarian income distribution in Denmark, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalisation Era; Jorge Álvarez and María de las Mercedes Menéndez.- 8. Democratisation and the rise of the welfare state; Erik Bengtsson and Marc Morgan.- 9. The role of education in modernisation drives in Brazil and in Sweden; Thomas Kang and Anders Nilsson.