Looking for Work, Searching for Workers
Subtitle: American Labor Markets during Industrialization
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521807807
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Economic history; Labor; Economic conditions; Business / Economics / Finance; United States - 19th Century; Business/Economics; History: American; USA; Labor demand; History / United States / 19th Century; Labor market--United States--History; 1865-1918; History; Labor market; United States
First sentence: On August 8, 1904, John Achzener met a man on the street in Baltimore who asked him if he "wanted to go along with some other men to Chicago to work as butchers at $2.25 a day."