Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Labor Markets and American Industrialization
- 2 Job Seekers, Employers, and the Creation of Labor Market Institutions
- 3 Employment Agencies and Labor Exchanges: The Impact of Intermediaries in the Market for Labor
- 4 Markets for Skilled Labor: External Recruitment and the Development of Internal Labor Markets
- 5 One Market or Many? Intercity and Interregional Labor Market Integration
- 6 Labor Market Integration and the Use of Strikebreakers
- 7 Labor Market Institutions and American Economic Growth: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century
- References
- Index
List of Figures and Tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 Labor Markets and American Industrialization
- 2 Job Seekers, Employers, and the Creation of Labor Market Institutions
- 3 Employment Agencies and Labor Exchanges: The Impact of Intermediaries in the Market for Labor
- 4 Markets for Skilled Labor: External Recruitment and the Development of Internal Labor Markets
- 5 One Market or Many? Intercity and Interregional Labor Market Integration
- 6 Labor Market Integration and the Use of Strikebreakers
- 7 Labor Market Institutions and American Economic Growth: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century
- References
- Index
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- Looking for Work, Searching for WorkersAmerican Labor Markets during Industrialization, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002