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Title: Technological Changes and Old Labor: Industrial Characteristics and Unemployment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early-Twentieth-Century America

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: This study has explored how demand-side factors, represented by variousindustrial characteristics, affected the probability of long-term unemployment of oldermale manufacturing workers in the early twentieth century United States, based on theIPUMS of the 1910 census linked to the industry-level statistics from the 1909manufacturing census. These results largely support the pessimistic view of the impactof industrialization on the labor-market status of older men, suggesting that the shiftsin the industrial environment such as the rise in the speed of production and diminishedflexibility would have produced a great pressure toward leaving the labor force amongolder workers. On the other hand, the rise of large corporations and the rapidproductivity growth per se were presumably not responsible for the decline in theemployment of older workers. The formalization of work-organization and the declineof craft control could have secured the labor-market position of elderly workers.

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Authors: Lee, Chulhee

Publisher: Seoul National University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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