Labor in a Massachusetts Cotton Mill, 1853–60
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9628337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ray Ginger (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-91 |
| Publication date | 1954-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3111446 |
| OpenAlex | W2162653388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 11 |
Skilled textile workers migrated from Scotland to Massachusetts in the 1850's because of a large wage differential and low steerage rates for the transatlantic passage. For each one of 56 women weavers in the Lyman Mills, expenditures on current consumption took less than 75 per cent of income. But the circumstances were unusual, so this sample does not permit any conclusions about the role of wage-earners' savings in the accumulation of capital in New England. In this mill, two-thirds of the labor force in 1860 had been working there less than three years. The impact of this high degree of labor mobility on labor relations and on the technology of the industry is tentatively assessed
Agricultural economics · Capital (architecture · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Mill · Political science · Sociology · Textile industry · Wage · American History and Culture · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
The Waltham system and the coming of the Irish
Interjurisdictional competition and the Married Women’s Property Acts
The union of sex and craft in the haverhill shoe strike of 1895
Tramping artisans
The Craftsman as Industrialist
Employment Duration and Industrial Labor Mobility in the United States, 1880-1980
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880
The Early New England Cotton Manufacture
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1865
The Standard of Life of the Workers in England. 1790–1830
Recruiting Contract Laborers for the Amoskeag Mills
Labor in the Early New England Carpet Industry
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
Economic History of a Factory Town. A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2016 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |