Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: Evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 170-194

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

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Length of the working day; Manufacturing; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038286508     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4983(03)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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