Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization

by Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Book Overview

The dynamic character of American industrialization produced imbalances between the supply of and demand for labor across cities and regions. This book describes how employers and job-seekers responded to these imbalances to create networks of labor market communication and assistance capable of mobilizing the massive redistribution of population that was essential to maintain the rapid pace of the nation's economic growth between the Civil War and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521002877
• ISBN13: 9780521002875
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"