National Sample from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing

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Principal Investigator(s): Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred

Summary: This collection presents information from the 1880 census of manufacturing in 36 states and the District of Columbia. It was originally collected to paint a quantitative picture of industrialization in the United States. The data describe states and counties in terms of urban or rural, amount of capital invested, and numbers of male, female, and child workers employed. Additional information includes daily wage for skilled and unskilled labor, annual wage bill, hours in ordinary day'... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09385.v2

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