Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider
Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider have assembled several large data bases of spinners' production and wages that they believe disprove my view that high wages led to mechanization in eighteenth century England. This paper examines their data and shows that they have little value in understa...
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University of Oxford
2018
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