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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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Saving Stuyvesant Town : how one community defeated the worst real estate deal in history

Garodnick, Daniel R. - 2021

Side, and New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick, as they fought to preserve the United States' largest rental …

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Paris to New York : the transatlantic fashion industry in the twentieth century

Pouillard, Véronique - 2021

"Paris to New York shows how competition and cooperation between transatlantic designers and entrepreneurs built the …

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Front-line workers in the global service economy : overshadowed and overstretched in the fast fashion world

Fullin, Giovanna - 2021

"Walking around the commercial streets of New York, San Francisco, Milan, London, or Paris and looking at the … talk among the employees you hear very different stories. In New York, a 30-year-old woman is worried because she does not … unionists in New York City and Milan, Front-Line Workers in the Global Service Economy investigates both the lived experiences …

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The Effects of Income on Children's Health : Evidence from Supplemental Security Income Eligibility Under New York State Medicaid

Ko, Hansoo; Howland, Renata; Glied, Sherry - 2022

There is a well-established association between income and child health. We examine the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative...

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