Author: Temin, Peter ; editor :
Title: Industrialization in North America [The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 6 ]
Description: Oxford, Blackwell, 1994. orig. cloth. 25x17cm, xxvi,741 pp. Series: Economic History Society, The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 6.. ISBN: 0631181180. Light stains to binding. Light page-edge soil. Minor wear. VG ¶ Contains 26 papers. Includes: R.E. Gallman "The Pace & Pattern of American Economic Growth"; P.A. David "New Light on a Statistical Dark Age: U.S. Real Product Growth Before 1840"; J.R. Kearl & C.L. Pope "Wealth Mobility: The Missing Element"; C. Goldin "The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence"; R.A. Margo & G.C. Villaflor "The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America: New Evidence"; E.D. Domar "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis"; A.H, Conrad & J.R. Meyer "The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South"; S. Fenoaltea "Slavery & Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model"; R. Ransom & R . Sutch " The Impact of the Civil War & of Emancipation on Southern Agriculture"; A. Fishlow " Antebellum Interregional Trade Reconsidered"; P.A. David "The Mechanization of Reaping in the Ante-Bellum Midwest"; R.A. Easterlin " Population Change & Farm Settlement in the Northern United States"; C.E. Solberg "Land Tenure & Land Settlement: Policy & Pattern in the Canadian Prairies & the Argentine Pampas, 1880-1930"; P. Temin "Labor Scarcity & the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850s"; G. Wright " Cheap Labor & Southern Textiles Before 1880"; C. Golden & K. Sokoloff " Women, Children, & Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from Manufacturing Censuses"; K.L. Sokoloff "Was the Transition from the Artisanal Shop to the Nonmechanized Factory Associated with Gains in Efficiency? Evidence From the U.S. Manufacturing Censuses of 1820 & 1850"; etc.

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