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The Decline in Turnover of Manufacturing Workers: Case Study Evidence from the 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Laura J. Owen
Laura J. Owen
Affiliation:
DePaul University
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 459 - 461
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1992

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References

1 This dissertation was completed in 1991 at the Economics Department of Yale University under the supervision of William Parker, David Weiman, and David Weir.

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