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Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry

Davis, Lance E.; Gallman, Robert E.; Hutchins, Teresa D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1990

This paper examines 36.640 labor contracts signed between whalemen and the agents who organized 1,258 whaling voyages that departed from New Bedford, Massachusetts between January I. 1840 and December 31, 1858 and between January I and December 31, 1866. The contracts contain information on the...

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Productivity in American whaling : the new bedford fleet in the nineteenth century

Davis, Lance Edwin; Gallman, Robert E.; Hutchins, Teresa D. - 1987

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Productivity in American whaling : the New Bedford fleet in the nineteenth century

Davis, Lance Edwin - In: Markets in history : economic studies of the past, (pp. 97-147). 1989

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Technology, productivity, and profits : British-American whaling competition in the North Atlantic, 1816 - 1842

Davis, Lance Edwin - In: Quantitative economic history, (pp. 142-163). 1992

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Technology, productivity, and profits : British - American whaling competition in the North Atlantic, 1816 - 1842

Davis, Lance Edwin - In: Oxford economic papers 39 (1987) 4, pp. 738-759

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Call me Ishmael - not Domingo Floresta : the rise and fall of the American whaling industry

Davis, Lance Edwin - In: The vital one: essays in honor of Jonathan R. T. Hughes, (pp. 191-233). 1991

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Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry

Davis, Lance E. - 1990

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Productivity in American Whaling : the New Bedford Fleet in the Nineteenth Century

Gallman, Robert E. - 2007

From the end of the War of 1812 until the Civil War the New Bedford whaling fleet grew spectacularly; thereafter it declined, equally spectacularly. By the end of the century New Bedford's day was over. During the 88 years of this period, the technical configuration of the fleet, the hunting...

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Risk Sharing, Crew Quality, Labor Shares and Wages in the Nineteenth Century American Whaling Industry

Davis, Lance E.; Gallman, Robert E.; Hutchins, Teresa D. - 2021

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Risk sharing, crew quality, labor shares and wages in the nineteenth century American whaling industry

Davis, Lance Edwin - 1990

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