- Hardcover: 406 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Feb 15 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226279456
- ISBN-13: 978-0226279459
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
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This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before.
Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.
Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.
About the Author
Robert E. Gallman is the Kenan Professor of Economics and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. John Joseph Wallis is associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Scholarly concern with the early stages of modernization, and particularly with the effects of developments during the industrial revolution on standards of living, has had a long history. Read the first page
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Scholarly concern with the early stages of modernization, and particularly with the effects of developments during the industrial revolution on standards of living, has had a long history. Read the first page
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