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were adopted by an ever growing number of industries, industrialization became concentrated in cities throughout the …
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Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam …
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Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
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The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...
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We examine the long transition from water to steam power in US manufacturing, focusing on early users of mechanical power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs declined, manufacturing activity grew faster in counties...
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Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...
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likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …
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shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non …
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We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …
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Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate...
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