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Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills, and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880–1900

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This paper offers the hypothesis that the development of the textile industry in the South was shaped by the fact that by 1870 most experienced workers lived in the Piedmont. Thus, a firm which wished to hire experienced workers would have been led to choose the Piedmont; similarly, mills producing more difficult finer count cloth would have chosen the Piedmont in order to hire experienced workers. Finally, the persistence of a virtually all white workforce may be explained by the fact that most experienced workers were white and would have resisted working in integrated mills.

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  • Carlson, Leonard A., 1981. "Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills, and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880–1900," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(1), pages 65-71, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:41:y:1981:i:01:p:65-71_04
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    1. Claudia Rei, 2014. "Comment on "Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts"," NBER Chapters, in: Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective, pages 102-106, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Joseph P. Kaboski & Trevon D. Logan, 2011. "Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 5(2), pages 111-152.
    3. Benjamin Schneider & Jane Whittle, 2024. "Where is the Place in the History of Work? Worksites, Workspaces, and the Home-Work Nexus," Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers _213, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.

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