Firm Size and Industrial Structure in the United States During the Nineteenth Century

Jeremy Atack

The Journal of Economic History, 1986, vol. 46, issue 02, pages 463-475

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the emergence of large-scale enterprises on industrial structure in America in the mid-nineteenth century and concludes that their impact was ambiguous. In cottons and irons, average scale increased dramatically, but inequality in the size distribution of plants declined and economic concentration showed no clear trend. In other industries, changes in average scale were much smaller and inequality increased, but again there was no clear trend in concentration.

Date: 1986

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