Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)

Name: Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)
ISBN: 9780226505077

by Robert A. Margo

"Over the past several decades, research by economists and economic historians has greatly expanded our knowledge of labor markets and real wages in the United States since the Civil War. By contra…