Contract as contested terrain: An economic history of law and the rise of American Capitalism
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between law and the rise of capitalism in the U.S. First, I analyze the changing relationship between labor productivity and pay at the Lawrence #2 textile mill in Massachusetts between 1834 and 1855. I estimate a model of productivity under a piece rate c...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603116 |