Fred Bateman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1007982 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fred Bateman |
| PRENOMES | Fred |
| SOBRENOME | Bateman |
| ASSINATURA | BATEMAN F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth
Using a newly developed geographic information system transportation database, we study the impact of gaining access to rail transportation on changes in population density and the rate of urbanization between 1850 and 1860 in the American Midwest. Differences-in-differences and instrumental variable analysis of a balanced panel of 278 counties reveals only a small positive effect of rail access on population density but a large positive impact o…
Did New Deal and World War II Public Capital Investments Facilitate a »Big Push« in the American South?
The »big push« theory claims that publicly coordinated investment can break the cycle of poverty by helping developing economies overcome deficiencies in private incentives that prevent firms from adopting modern production techniques and achieving scale economies. Despite a flurry of research, however, scholars have offered scarce few real-world episodes that seem to fit the theoretical model. We argue that the postwar performance of the America…
Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing
Capital deepening and the rise of the factory
Between 1850 and 1880, capital per worker in United States manufacturing increased on average by at least 75 per cent, even after taking account of declining capital goods prices. During this same period, production shifted from small, labour-intensive artisan shops to large capital-intensive factories. Similar changes have occurred in many other countries at the same stage of industrialization. Establishment-level data from the federal censuses …
Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing
We study the correlates of the monthly establishment wage-the average monthly wage at the establishment level-and changes in wage dispersion between plants using a model of manufacturing developed by Goldin and Katz and data from manuscript censuses of manufacturing. We find that wages were decreasing in establishment size, but increasing in capital intensity and use of steam power. We also find an increase in inequality in the establishment wage…
Was ``V'' for Victory or Votes? A Public Choice Analysis of World War II Federal Spending
The New Deal at war
Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day
Part-Year Operation in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing
We examine the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late nineteenth century using unpublished data from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures. These are the earliest comprehensive estimates available on this topic. Although the typical manufacturing plant operated full-time, part-year operation was not uncommon. Indeed, the likelihood of part-year operation varied across industries and location and w…
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research
(1999). Nineteenth-Century U.S. Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 177-188
From Market-Places to a Market Economy
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match”
(1992). “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match”. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 53-65
How Long Was the Workday in 1880
This article develops the first comprehensive set of estimates of daily hours of work in 1880 using new data from the Census of Manufactures. We conclude that the average workday was almost exactly 10 hours in 1880—almost a decade earlier than hitherto supposed. Our statistical analysis also reveals small but statistically significant variations in hours between firms and industries, between regions, and by location. We also find that higher-paid…
The Shadow of a Dream
Journal Article The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920. By Peter A. Coclanis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xii + 370 pp. $39.95.) Get access Fred Bateman Fred Bateman Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Page 282, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078676 Published:…
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830-1910
Journal Article The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830–1910. By John Alfred Heitmann. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiii + 298 pp. $35.00.) Get access Fred Bateman Fred Bateman Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1327, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908693 Published: 01 March 198…
Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past & Present
Journal Article Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past & Present. Ed. by Lawrence E. Gelfand and Robert J. Neymeyer. (Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, University of Iowa, 1986. ix + HI pp. Paper, $9.95.) Get access Fred Bateman Fred Bateman Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 271–…
To Their Own Soil
Journal Article To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xii + 322 pp. $29.95.) Get access Homer E. Socolofsky Homer E. Socolofsky Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1339–1340, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894443 Published: 01 March 1…
To Their Own Soil
Marketable Farm Surpluses
Business in the New South
A Deplorable Scarcity
A Deplorable Scarcity
Coal, Iron, and Slaves
Pioneering in Industrialization
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research
(1999). Nineteenth-Century U.S. Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 177-188
Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Age
Little is known about the distribution of wealth in the allegedly egalitarian society of the rural North on the eve of the Civil War. This paper investigates the role of the age structure of the heads of household and a life-cycle pattern of accumulation in determining the wealth distribution within that society and among the various groups that comprised it. The results suggest a need for caution in making cross-group or inter-temporal compariso…
The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing
In spite of the importance accorded the steam engine during nineteenth-century industrialization, little is known about its rate of diffusion and the determinants thereof in the United States. The primary purpose of this paper is to enhance our knowledge about the spread of this technology. New evidence on steam power use in 1820, 1850, and 1860, combined with published census data from 1870, permits quantitative estimates of the regional variati…
How Long Was the Workday in 1880
This article develops the first comprehensive set of estimates of daily hours of work in 1880 using new data from the Census of Manufactures. We conclude that the average workday was almost exactly 10 hours in 1880—almost a decade earlier than hitherto supposed. Our statistical analysis also reveals small but statistically significant variations in hours between firms and industries, between regions, and by location. We also find that higher-paid…
Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing
We study the correlates of the monthly establishment wage-the average monthly wage at the establishment level-and changes in wage dispersion between plants using a model of manufacturing developed by Goldin and Katz and data from manuscript censuses of manufacturing. We find that wages were decreasing in establishment size, but increasing in capital intensity and use of steam power. We also find an increase in inequality in the establishment wage…
Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day
Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing
A Deplorable Scarcity
Journal Article A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy. By Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xiii + 237 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.00.) Get access Albert W. Niemi, Jr. Albert W. Niemi, Jr. University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
Part-Year Operation in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing
We examine the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late nineteenth century using unpublished data from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures. These are the earliest comprehensive estimates available on this topic. Although the typical manufacturing plant operated full-time, part-year operation was not uncommon. Indeed, the likelihood of part-year operation varied across industries and location and w…
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match”
(1992). “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match”. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 53-65
Comparative Regional Development in Antebellum Manufacturing
A reconsideration of regional economic development during the antebellum period is underway. Emphasis thus far has tended to center on economic aggregates, on one region (the South) or on a single sector (agriculture). While the results of this work have altered our understanding of the antebellum South's relative economic position—or at least have sharpened the debate on the issues—comprehension of the role and position of the period's industria…
The New Deal at war
Profitability in southern manufacturing
Improvement in American Dairy Farming, 1850-1910
Agricultural improvement, as analysts of economic growth often stress, plays an important role in a developing economy. Recent quantitative research has expanded our knowledge of developments in American agriculture during the period when the economy was becoming industrialized. The purpose of this article is to compute new estimates of average milk yields (output per milk animal) in American dairy agriculture and to analyze the sources of change…
Capital deepening and the rise of the factory
Between 1850 and 1880, capital per worker in United States manufacturing increased on average by at least 75 per cent, even after taking account of declining capital goods prices. During this same period, production shifted from small, labour-intensive artisan shops to large capital-intensive factories. Similar changes have occurred in many other countries at the same stage of industrialization. Establishment-level data from the federal censuses …
Market Structure before the Age of Big Business
This study finds that the average degree of concentration in southern industrial markets was high in the period 1850–1860. Although the potential for monopolistic control existed, the authors argue, it does not appear to have been exploited systematically to gain rates of return exceeding those in less concentrated industries
Was ``V'' for Victory or Votes? A Public Choice Analysis of World War II Federal Spending
Large-Scale Manufacturing in the South and West, 1850–1860
An examination of the manuscript censuses of manufacturing in 1850 and 1860 indicates the forthcoming revision of many traditional interpretations of American industrial development. This study suggests that large-scale manufacturing in the South and West was quite similar in the decade before the Civil War and that antebellum manufacturing was sufficiently concentrated to imply that the model of perfect competition is as inappropriate a descript…
Labor Inputs and Productivity in American Dairy Agriculture, 1850–1910
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century and into the early part of the twentieth, American agriculture was expanding and improving under the influence of growing demand, the westward movement, mechanization of farm operations, and scientific farming developments. Under these influences, yields and labor productivity in field crops generally increased. Until recently, however, little has been known about the course of productivity cha…
Improvement in American Dairy Farming, 1850-1910
Agricultural improvement, as analysts of economic growth often stress, plays an important role in a developing economy. Recent quantitative research has expanded our knowledge of developments in American agriculture during the period when the economy was becoming industrialized. The purpose of this article is to compute new estimates of average milk yields (output per milk animal) in American dairy agriculture and to analyze the sources of change…
Issues in the Measurement of Efficiency of American Dairy Farming, 1850–1910
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Labor Inputs and Productivity in American Dairy Agriculture, 1850–1910
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century and into the early part of the twentieth, American agriculture was expanding and improving under the influence of growing demand, the westward movement, mechanization of farm operations, and scientific farming developments. Under these influences, yields and labor productivity in field crops generally increased. Until recently, however, little has been known about the course of productivity cha…
Large-Scale Manufacturing in the South and West, 1850–1860
An examination of the manuscript censuses of manufacturing in 1850 and 1860 indicates the forthcoming revision of many traditional interpretations of American industrial development. This study suggests that large-scale manufacturing in the South and West was quite similar in the decade before the Civil War and that antebellum manufacturing was sufficiently concentrated to imply that the model of perfect competition is as inappropriate a descript…
Comparative Regional Development in Antebellum Manufacturing
A reconsideration of regional economic development during the antebellum period is underway. Emphasis thus far has tended to center on economic aggregates, on one region (the South) or on a single sector (agriculture). While the results of this work have altered our understanding of the antebellum South's relative economic position—or at least have sharpened the debate on the issues—comprehension of the role and position of the period's industria…
Profitability in southern manufacturing
Market Structure before the Age of Big Business
This study finds that the average degree of concentration in southern industrial markets was high in the period 1850–1860. Although the potential for monopolistic control existed, the authors argue, it does not appear to have been exploited systematically to gain rates of return exceeding those in less concentrated industries
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The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing
In spite of the importance accorded the steam engine during nineteenth-century industrialization, little is known about its rate of diffusion and the determinants thereof in the United States. The primary purpose of this paper is to enhance our knowledge about the spread of this technology. New evidence on steam power use in 1820, 1850, and 1860, combined with published census data from 1870, permits quantitative estimates of the regional variati…
The "Egalitarian Ideal" and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community
This paper contributes new evidence on the wealth distribution in the rural North on the eve of the Civil War,' evidence which shows a greater degree of egalitarianism among a large segment of the population than have other studies. We argue that the wealth distribution in this particular historical economy may be used as a yardstick against which contemporary distributions might be judged. We also present evidence on the demographic and social c…
Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Age
Little is known about the distribution of wealth in the allegedly egalitarian society of the rural North on the eve of the Civil War. This paper investigates the role of the age structure of the heads of household and a life-cycle pattern of accumulation in determining the wealth distribution within that society and among the various groups that comprised it. The results suggest a need for caution in making cross-group or inter-temporal compariso…
A Deplorable Scarcity
A Deplorable Scarcity
Coal, Iron, and Slaves
Pioneering in Industrialization
A Deplorable Scarcity
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from cen…
A Deplorable Scarcity
Journal Article A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy. By Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xiii + 237 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.00.) Get access Albert W. Niemi, Jr. Albert W. Niemi, Jr. University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
Managerial Hierarchies
A Deplorable Scarcity
A Deplorable Scarcity
Business in the New South
Marketable Farm Surpluses
Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past & Present
Journal Article Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past & Present. Ed. by Lawrence E. Gelfand and Robert J. Neymeyer. (Iowa City: Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, University of Iowa, 1986. ix + HI pp. Paper, $9.95.) Get access Fred Bateman Fred Bateman Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 271–…
To Their Own Soil
Journal Article To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. By Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987. xii + 322 pp. $29.95.) Get access Homer E. Socolofsky Homer E. Socolofsky Kansas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1339–1340, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894443 Published: 01 March 1…
To Their Own Soil
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