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Labor Economics and the Labor Historian
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2008
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1. For two recent discussions and appraisals of the new labor history and an anthology of examples see: Brody, David, “The Old Labor History and the New,” Labor History, 20 (Winter 1979), 111–126CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Montgomery, David, “To Study The People: The American Working Class,” Labor History, 21 (Fall 1980), 485–512CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cantor, Milton (ed.), American Working Class Culture: Explorations in American Labor and Social History (Westport, Conn., 1979).Google Scholar
2. A valuable bibliography of recent major works in labor economics can be found in Levitan, Sar, Magnum, Garth, and Marshall, Ray, Human Resources and Labor Markets: Labor and Manpower in the American Economy (New York, 1976), 601–610.Google Scholar
3. Kerr's key articles have recently been anthologized. See Kerr, Clark, Labor Markets and Wage Determination: The Balkanization of Labor Market and Other Essays (Berkeley, 1977).Google Scholar
4. These arguments are presented in Kerr, Clark, Dunlop, John, Harbison, Frederick and Myers, Charles, Industrialism and Industrial Man (Cambridge, Mass., 1960).Google Scholar This work is now a piece of intellectual history.
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