Looking for work, searching for workers : American labor markets during industrialization
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Looking for work, searching for workers : American labor markets during industrialization
Cambridge University Press, 2002
- : pbk
Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
LCCN:2001035671
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-194) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The dynamic character of American industrialization produced imbalances between the supply of and demand for labor across cities and regions. This book describes how employers and job-seekers responded to these imbalances to create networks of labor market communication and assistance capable of mobilizing the massive redistribution of population that was essential to maintain the rapid pace of the nation's economic growth between the Civil War and World War I. It combines a detailed description of the emerging labor market institutions with a careful analysis of a variety of quantitative evidence to assess the broader economic implications for geographic wage convergence and for American economic growth. Despite an expansion in the geographic scope of labor markets at this time, the evidence suggests that labor market institutions reinforced regional divisions within the United States and left a lasting impact on the evolution of many other aspects of the employment relationship.
Table of Contents
- 1. Labor markets and American industrialization
- 2. Job seekers, employers, and the creation of labor market institutions
- 3. Employment agencies and labor exchanges: this impact of intermediaries in the market for labor
- 4. Markets for skilled labor: external recruitment and the development of internal labor markets
- 5. One market or many? Inter-city and inter-regional labor market integration
- 6. Labor market integration and the use of strikebreakers
- 7. Labor market institutions and American economic growth: lessons from the nineteenth century.
by "Nielsen BookData"