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

Kenneth L. Sokoloff & Georgia C. Villaflor
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Copyright 1992
ISBN 0-226-30112-5
Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History
Book: Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel
Book editors: Claudia Goldin & Hugh Rockoff
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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