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Volume 51 - December 1991

Contents

Page 3 of 12

Reviews of Books

Notes and Discussion

Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

Reviews of Books

Editors' Notes

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  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 201-206
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Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Occupational Differences in Labor Market Integration: The United States in 1890

  • Joshua L. Rosenbloom
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 427-439

  • When labor markets are subject to large demand or supply shocks, as was the case in the late nineteenth-century United States, geographic wage differentials may not be an accurate index of market integration. This article uses a conceptually more appealing measure—the elasticity of local labor supply—to compare the integration of urban labor markets for a variety of occupations in 1890. According to this measure, markets, for unskilled labor and skilled metal-working trades appear relatively well integrated in comparison to those for the skilled building trades.

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Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association

  • Modes of Labor Control in Cattle-Ranching Economies: California, Southern Brazil, and Argentina, 1820–1860

  • Ricardo D. Salvatore
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 March 2009, pp. 441-451

  • The ranching economies of California, southern Brazil, and Argentina resorted to different mechanisms of labor control in order to meet the growing demand for their products. Each area used different combinations of slave and wage labor as well as sharecropping arrangements, and these varied over time. I argue that this diversity cannot be explained by differences in the regions' modes of production or relative factor endowments. An alternative interpretive framework that incorporates social conflicts, civil strife, and the interaction between ranchers and the state is needed to explain the differences in modes of labor control.

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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

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