Industrialization in North America
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Industrialization in North America
（The Industrial revolutions / general editors R.A. Church and E.A. Wrigley, v. 6）
Blackwell Publishers, 1994
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From a survey of the growth of income in the United States and its distribution, these analyses of the initial industrialization of North America go on to explore the nature of American slavery, an important institution affecting the US economy in its early years. Northern agriculture, which provided the context within which industrialization began, is described next. Then attention turns to the beginnings of industry in a successful agricultural economy, followed by a section examining iron, railroads and large firms. Finally, seminal articles on banking and financial markets close the collection.
Table of Contents
General editor's introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: Peter Temin. Part I: Income Growth and Distribution: 1. The pace and pattern of American economic growth: Robert E. Gallman. 2. New light on a statistical dark age: US real product growth before 1840: Paul A. David. 3. Wealth mobility: the missing elements: J. R. Kearl and Clayne L. Pope. 4. The economic status of women in the early re[ublic: quantitative evidence: Claudis Goldin. 5. The growth of wages in antebellum America: new evidence: Robert A. Margo and Georgia C. Villaflor. Part II: Slavery and Southern Agriculture: 6. The causes of slavery or serfdom: a hypothesis: Evsey D. Domar. 7. The economics of slavery in the ante bellum south: Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer. 8. Slavery and supervision in comparative: a model: Stefano Fenoaltea. 9. The impact of the Civil War and emancipation on southern agriculture: Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch. Part III: Northern Agriculture: 10. Antebellum interregional trade reconsidered: Albert Fishlow. 11. The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum midwest: Paul A. David. 12. Popluation change and farm settlement in the northern United Stated: Richard A. Easterlin. 13. Land tenure and land settlement: policy and patterns in the Canadian Prairies and the Argentine pampas, 1880-1930: Carl E. Solberg. Part IV: Early Industrial Growth: 14. Labor scarcity and the problem of American industrial efficiency in the 1850s: Peter Temin. 15. Cheap labor and the southern textiles before 1880: Gavin Wright. 16. Women, children, and the industrialization in the early republic:evidence from the manufacturing censuses: Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff. 17. Was the transition from artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency?: evidence from the U.S. manufacturing censuses of 1820 and 1850: Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 18. Land abundance, interest/profit rates, and nineteenth-century American and British technology: Alexander James Field. 19. International competitiveness of the antebellum American cotton textile industry: C. Knick Harley. Part V: Later Industrial Growth: 20. A quantitative approach to the study of railroads in American economic growth: a report of some preliminary findings: Robert W. Fogel. 21. Hard Driving and efficiency: iron production in 1890: Peter Berck. 22. The United States: seedbed of managerial capatalism: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Part VI: Banking and Financial Markets: 23. Banks, kinship, and economic development: the New England case: Naomi R. Lamoreaux. 24. The economic consequences of the bank war. 25. The investment market, 1870-1914: the evolution of a national market: Lance E. Davis. 26. Industrial concentration and the capital markets: a comparative study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830-1930: Stephen H. Haber. Acknowledgements.
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