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

Gerald Friedman, Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel (University of Chicago Press, 1992), chap. 16, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/strategic-factors-nineteenth-century-american-economic-history-volume-honor-robert-w-fogel/dividing-labor-urban-politics-and-big-city-construction-late-nineteenth-century-america.