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Volume 41 - December 1981

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Papers Presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills, and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880–1900

  • Leonard A. Carlson
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    03 March 2009, pp. 65-71

  • This paper offers the hypothesis that the development of the textile industry in the South was shaped by the fact that by 1870 most experienced workers lived in the Piedmont. Thus, a firm which wished to hire experienced workers would have been led to choose the Piedmont; similarly, mills producing more difficult finer count cloth would have chosen the Piedmont in order to hire experienced workers. Finally, the persistence of a virtually all white workforce may be explained by the fact that most experienced workers were white and would have resisted working in integrated mills.

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  • Editors' Notes

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    03 March 2009, pp. 424-425
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Papers Presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

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    03 March 2009, pp. 908-909
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Announcement

  • Economic History Association Annual Meeting

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    03 March 2009, pp. 426-427
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Papers Presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Urban Disamenities, Dark Satanic Mills, and the British Standard of Living Debate

  • Jeffrey G. Williamson
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    03 March 2009, pp. 75-83

  • What were the economic costs of the disamenities that the British worker incurred when migrating to the city in the last century? How important were these costs in accounting for the higher nominal wages for unskilled work in the cities? How much of the rise in wages during the Industrial Revolution might therefore be spurious mismeasurement? This paper supplies some answers. Like the results on mid-twentieth-century growth by contemporary economists, the nineteenth-century estimates also suggest the disamenities' effects to be trivial.

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  • Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Age: The Rural North in 1860

  • Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman
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    03 March 2009, pp. 85-93

  • Little is known about the distribution of wealth in the allegedly egalitarian society of the rural North on the eve of the Civil War. This paper investigates the role of the age structure of the heads of household and a life-cycle pattern of accumulation in determining the wealth distribution within that society and among the various groups that comprised it. The results suggest a need for caution in making cross-group or inter-temporal comparisons in wealth distributions without taking account of such factors.

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Papers Presented at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

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