Markets for children in early America: A political economy of pauper apprenticeship

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 356-382

  Murray, John E ^a   Herndon, Ruth Wallis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; ECONOMIC HISTORY; EDUCATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TRAINING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036064660     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050702000530     Document Type: Article

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