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Research in economic history. Vol. 23 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Research in economic history/ edited by Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom.
other author:	Field, Alexander J.
Published:	Bingley, U.K. :Emerald, : 2006.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 286 p.).
Subject:	Economic history - Research. -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0363-3268/23
ISBN:	9781849503792 (electronic bk.)

Research in economic history. Vol. 23 /
Research in economic historyVol. 23 /[electronic resource].edited by Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom. - Bingley, U.K. :Emerald,2006. - 1 online resource (xi, 286 p.). - Research in economic history,0363-3268. - Research in economic history..

Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- A Soviet quasi-market for inventions : jet propulsion, 1932-1946 / Mark Harrison -- Network quality inthe early telegraph industry / Tomas Nonnenmacher -- The Spanish infrastructure stock, 18441935 / Alfonso Herranz-Loncán -- Have Americanworkers always been low savers? : patterns of accumulation among working households, 1885-1910 / John A. James, Michael G. Palumbo, Mark Thomas -- Worker absenteeism under voluntary and compulsory sickness insurance : continental Europe, 1885-1908 / John E. Murray -- Urban real wages around the eastern Mediterranean in comparative perspective, 1100-2000 / Sevket Pamuk -- Japanese unskilled wages in international perspective, 1741-1913 / Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma -- Relative British and American Income levels during the first Industrial Revolution / MarianneWard, John Devereux.

This volume of Research in Economic History includes eight papers. Five were submitted through regular channels and three papers which weresolicited at the conference Toward a Global History ofPrices and Wages. Following is Nonnenmachers study of the early years of the telegraphindustry in the United States. The third paper is Herranz-Loncans estimates of the growth of the Spanish infrastructure between 1844 and 1935. Then there are two papers based on microeconomic data. The first is the investigation by James, Palumbo and Thomas of late nineteenth century saving among working class families in the United States. The second is Murrays study of the operation of pioneering sickness insurance schemes in several European countries between 1895 and 1908. Finally, the three papers from the conference. In the first of these papers, Pamuk studies trends in urban construction workers wages in the Eastern Mediterranean over almost a millennium. The following paper by Bassino and Ma examines wages of Japanese unskilled workers between 1741 and 1913. In the final paper, Ward and Devereux present estimates of the relative income of the United Kingdom in comparison with that of the United Statesfor 1831, 1839, 1849, 1859 and 1869.

ISBN: 9781849503792 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

332899
Economic history
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LC Class. No.: HC28 / .R47 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 330.0723

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 330.8

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