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Title: The Roaring Thirties: Productivity Growth and Technological Change in Great Britain and the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: This study reexamines the comparative labor-productivity performance of the United States as well as the United Kingdom the main industrial-rival of the US. In light of the dynamic productivity developments reported by Field, I reassess the British technological and organizational innovations and provide a novel explanation for the rapid divergence of the Anglo-American labor-productivity levels, observed during the early twentieth century. Chapters 2 and 3 present new benchmarks of Anglo-American comparative labor productivity, establishing the relative productivity gap between the two leading industrial nations at both the start of the twentieth century (ca. 1910) as well as the interwar era (1935). Chapter 4 discusses technological change, capital accumulation and efficiency decline in Britain and the US between the wars. Lastly, chapter 5 reexamines American labor quality for the first half of the twentieth century.
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Authors: Woltjer, Pieter Jacob
Institution: University of Groningen, SOM Research School
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Publisher Location: Groningen, Netherlands
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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