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Modernization in Progress: Part-Year Operation, Mechanization, and Labor Force Composition in Late Imperial Russia.
- Source :
- Journal of Economic History; Dec2022, Vol. 82 Issue 4, p1143-1182, 40p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper investigates part-year factory operation, a common but understudied dimension of industrializing economies, in a prototypical late-industrializing setting that offers rich factory-level data: Imperial Russia. Newly compiled data provides detailed descriptions of all Russian manufacturing firms operating in 1894 and shows that factories operating a greater number of annual working days were more mechanized, more urban, more likely to employ women and children, more productive, and more likely to survive. Rather than arguing that part-year operation demonstrated Russia's uniquely inexorable backwardness, we stress operating time's relationship to fundamental drivers of growth, including urbanization, geography, and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- LABOR supply
MECHANIZATION
URBANIZATION
WORKING hours
TIME pressure
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220507
- Volume :
- 82
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Economic History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160557022
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050722000341