Economic Dualism and What It Means to American Labor Force Participants

1983 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Nackenoff
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
American Labor

Global Master Workman

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Steven Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Leader ◽  
Irish Immigrants ◽  
National Border ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

This chapter analyzes the story of a transnational figure who hardly ever crossed a national border in his career as labor leader. Terence Powderly (1849-1924) was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, in 1849, to Irish immigrants. He entered the labor force as a switchman for the Delaware and Hudson railroad at the age of 13, as the Civil War raged across the United States, and became a machinists’ apprentice at the age of 17. He was marked out very early as a rising star in the American labor movement, rising quickly in the Machinist and Blacksmith’s Union after joining it in 1871. In 1874, a year after the Panic of ’73 brought economic depression to the United States and forced Powderly west to find work, he joined a relatively new, secret union that he would be associated with for the rest of his life: The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor.

The African-American Labor Supply after Reconstruction: Added Worker Effects in Urban Families

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-208
Author(s):  
John E. Murray ◽  
Werner Troesken
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Added Worker Effect ◽  
Econometric Evidence ◽  
American Cities ◽  
American Labor

Econometric analysis of a hitherto unused 1896 survey of African-American families in American cities, mostly located in the South, reveals the classic added worker effect: Longer intervals of husbands' unemployment—not counting work missed on account of illness—led to a greater share of wives taking paid employment outside the home. The analysis also shows that household structure and composition, as well as the health of husbands, influenced the decision of wives to enter the labor force. The data and analysis provide some of first econometric evidence about the labor-force decisions of urban-dwelling blacks in late nineteenth-century America.

scholarly journals The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition.

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 743
Author(s):  
Charles D. Stewart ◽  
Gertrude Bancroft
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
American Labor

Immigration Policy and the American Labor Force

ILR Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Melvin W. Reder ◽  
Vernon M. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
American Labor

scholarly journals The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition.

ILR Review ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lampman ◽  
Gertrude Bancroft
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
American Labor
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