Strategic factors in nineteenth century American economic history : a volume to honor Robert W. Fogel / edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fogel, Robert William.

Goldin, Claudia Dale.

Rockoff, Hugh.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Labor market.

Capital market--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Capital market.

United States--Economic conditions--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Strategic factors in 19th century American economic history.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy-labor, capital, and political structure-the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. The evolution of markets in agricultural and manufacturing labor is considered first; that concerning capital and credit follows. The demography of free and slave populations is the subject of the third section, and the final group of papers examines the extra-market institutions of governments and unions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Two Appreciations

1. The Market for Manufacturing Workers during Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860

2. Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War

3. Structural Change in the Farm Labor Force: Contract Labor in Massachusetts Agriculture, 1750-1865

4. Farm Tenancy in the Antebellum North

5. Regional Interest Rates in Antebellum America

6. Money versus Credit Rationing: Evidence for the National Banking Era, 1880-1914

7. Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Utah

8. The Wealth of Women, 1774

9. Adult Mortality in America before 1900: A View from Family Histories

10. Toward an Anthropometric History of African-Americans: The Case of the Free Blacks in Antebellum Maryland

11. The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives

12. The Fertility Bansition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses

13. Bading Quantity for Quality: Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century

14. The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand Bunk and Great Western Railway Companies

15. The Rise and Fall of Urban Political Patronage Machines

16. Dividing Labor: Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth- Century America

Dissertations Supervised by Robert W. Fogel

The Writings of Robert W. Fogel

Biographies

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held Mar. 2-3, 1991 in Cambridge, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The writings of Robert W. Fogel": p. 471-474.

ISBN:

9786611431006

9781281431004

1281431001

9780226301358

0226301354

OCLC:

476229229