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  • WAGES AND LABOR MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1820-1860
    ROBERT A. MARGO
    Research by economists and economic historians has greatly expanded our knowledge of labor markets and real wages in the United States since the Civil War, but the period from 1820 to 1860 has been far less studied. Robert Margo fills this gap by collecting and analyzing the payroll records of civilians hired by the United States Army and the 1850 and 1860 manuscript federal Ce...

    $858.25

  • RACE AND SCHOOLING IN THE SOUTH, 1880-1950
    ROBERT A. MARGO
    The interrelation among race, schooling, and labor market opportunities of American blacks can help us make sense of the relatively poor economic status of blacks in contemporary society. The role of these factors in slavery and the economic consequences for blacks has received much attention, but the post-slave experience of blacks in the American economy has been less studied...

    $525.39

  • WOMEN'S WORK?
    JOEL PERLMANN / ROBERT A. MARGO
    American schoolteaching is one of few occupations to have undergone a thorough gender shift yet previous explanations have neglected a key feature of the transition: its regional character. By the early 1800s, far higher proportions of women were teaching in the Northeast than in the South, and this regional difference was reproduced as settlers moved West before the Civil War....

    $980.88