Joshua L. Rosenbloom (University of Kansas)

Looking for Work, Searching for Workers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history of institutional changes in US labor markets during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It illustrates the importance both of institutions as determinants of national economic performance and of market forces in establishing the context of late nineteenth-century labor history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780521807807
• ISBN-10: 0521807808
• Artikelnr.: 29338980

Inhaltsangabe

1. Labor markets and American industrialization; 2. Job seekers, employers,
and the creation of labor market institutions; 3. Employment agencies and
labor exchanges: this impact of intermediaries in the market for labor; 4.
Markets for skilled labor: external recruitment and the development of
internal labor markets; 5. One market or many? Inter-city and
inter-regional labor market integration; 6. Labor market integration and
the use of strikebreakers; 7. Labor market institutions and American
economic growth: lessons from the nineteenth century.