Part-year operation in nineteenth-century American manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 censuses

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 792-809

  Atack, Jeremy ^a,b   Bateman, Fred ^c   Margo, Robert A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MANUFACTURING; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036745817     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050702001080     Document Type: Article

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