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Labour market evolution : the economic history of market integration, wage flexibility, and the employment relation / edited by George Grantham and Mary MacKinnon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor market--History.
- Labor market.
- Labor--History.
- Labor.
- Industrial relations--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How have modern labour markets developed? Both labour economists and economic historians agree that it is necessary to look at labour markets in their historical context. Labour Market Evolution does just this. The contributors examine the operation and development of labour markets in Western Europe and North America since 1500. They address the key questions in this complicated process using new quantitative evidence. First, how closely connected were geographically distant labour markets? Second, how flexible were markets in the past - did wages change in response to demand s
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; ECONOMIC HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF LABOUR MARKETS; BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LABOUR ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY: A LABOUR ECONOMIST'S PERSPECTIVE; HOW DID PRE-INDUSTRIAL LABOUR MARKETS FUNCTION?; THE DIS-INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL LABOUR MARKETS IN FRANCE: FROM AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY TO AGRICULTURE OR INDUSTRY; REGIONAL LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1850 1913; REAL INCOMES IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, 1879 1913
- DID LABOUR FLOW UPHILL? INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND WAGE RATES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND THE DECLINE IN HOURS OF WORK IN US LABOUR MARKETS, 1890 1903; JOB TENURE IN THE GILDED AGE; THE GREAT WAR AND THE CANADIAN LABOUR MARKET: RAILWAY WORKERS 1903 39; WAGE WOES IN WEIMAR? A PARTIAL INVESTIGATION; WAGE BEHAVIOUR IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN: A SCEPTICAL ENQUIRY; RACE, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND LABOUR MARKETS IN AMERICAN HISTORY; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-83926-X
- 1-282-77745-9
- 9786612777455
- 1-134-83927-8
- 0-203-02177-0
- 9780203021774
- OCLC:
- 70720468
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