Regional Differences in Costs and Productivity in the American Cotton Manufacturing Industry, 1880–1910

Chen-Han Chen

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1941, vol. 55, issue 4, 533-566

Abstract: I. Introductory. Concept of the "region," 533.— II. Labor cost per unit of labor and per unit of product, 536.—III. Regional differences in wages, 537. — Gratuities and payments in kind, 542. — Real wages, 544. — IV. The supply of labor, 545.—Legislative and other restrictions, 548.—V. Differences in productivity, 552. — Spinners and weavers, 558. — VI. Conclusions, 564.

Date: 1941
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