Skilled Immigrants and American Industrialization

Lessons from Newport News Shipyard

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9623922
AutoresW Walker Hanlon (0000-0002-2753-1085, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen92
Número4
Páginas605-632
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Business History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0007680519000023
OpenAlexW2922023035
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas20

In the late nineteenth century, American shipyards started building modern metal ships, a sector dominated by the British. But, they faced a challenge: a shortage of domestic workers with the skills to fabricate large metal ships. Using census of population data, this article describes how one important U.S. shipyard, Newport News Shipbuilding, overcame the shortage of skilled domestic workers to assemble an effective labor force. The results show that skilled immigrants, mainly from Britain, played an important role in the shipyard's early life while, over time, native workers were trained to fill skilled occupations

Archaeology · Census · Economic growth · Economic history · Economic shortage · Economics · Economy · Geography · Immigration · Industrialisation · Political science · Population · Shipbuilding · Shipyard · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy