Subject Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Two Appreciations 9
5. I. Labor Markets in Manufacturing and Agriculture
6. 1. The Market for Manufacturing Workers during Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860 29
7. 2. Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War 67
8. 3. Structural Change in the Farm Labor Force: Contract Labor in Massachusetts Agriculture, 1750-1865 105
9. 4. Farm Tenancy in the Antebellum North 135
10. II. Markets in Capital and Credit
11. 5. Regional Interest Rates in Antebellum America 159
12. 6. Money versus Credit Rationing: Evidence for the National Banking Era, 1880-1914 189
13. 7. Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Utah 225
14. 8. The Wealth of Women, 1774 243
15. III. The Demography of Free and Slave Populations
16. 9. Adult Mortality in America before 1900: A View from Family Histories 267
17. 10. Toward an Anthropometric History of African-Americans: The Case of the Free Blacks in Antebellum Maryland 297
18. 11. The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives 331
19. 12. The Fertility Bansition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 351
20. 13. Bading Quantity for Quality: Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century 375
21. IV. Political Economy
22. 14. The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand Bunk and Great Western Railway Companies 401
23. 15. The Rise and Fall of Urban Political Patronage Machines 427
24. 16. Dividing Labor: Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth- Century America 447
25. Dissertations Supervised by Robert W. Fogel 465
26. The Writings of Robert W. Fogel 471
27. Biographies 475
28. Contributors 477
29. Author Index 479
30. Subject Index 487