Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization

ISBN-13: 9780521807807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 224 str.

Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Opis

This book examines the history of institutional changes in U.S. labor markets during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It combines a detailed historical description of how these institutions worked and evolved with a thorough analysis of quantitative evidence that reveals their implications for geographic wage convergence and market integration. This account illustrates both the importance of institutions as determinants of national economic performance and the importance of market forces in establishing the context of late nineteenth century labor history.

Recenzje

'Rosenbloom develops a number of … important themes in his carefully researched and rigorously argued book … the author of Looking for Work, Searching for Workers rightfully takes his place as the leading authority on labour markets during America's industrial coming of age.' Business History

Spis treści

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.