This paper examines the home production activities of newly formed and long established households in rural New York over a twenty year period after the Erie Canal was built. It shows that newly established households had lower home production activities than long established households resident...

"Der vorliegende Band, herausgegeben von Frank-Lothar Kroll, vereinigt Abhandlungen des Chemnitzer Historikers Rudolf Boch zur deutschen Industrialisierung: Aufsätze zu den handwerklichen Ursprüngen der Arbeiterbewegung, aber auch ein Resümee zur Transformation dieser Bewegung nach 1890. Die...

"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a...