Research in economic history Vol. 23 / edited by Alexander J. Field ; co-edited by Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom.

• Introduction (A.J. Field).-- 1. A Soviet quasi-market for inventions: jet propulsion, 1932 to 1946 (M. Harrison).-- 2. Network quality in the early telegraph industry (T. Nonnenmacher).-- 3. The Spanish infrastructure stock, 1844-1935 (A. Harranz-Loncan).-- 4. Have American workers always been low savers? Patterns of accumulation among working households, 1885-1910. (J.A. James, M.G. Palumbo, M. Thomas).-- 5. Worker absenteeism under voluntary and compulsory sickness insurance: continental Europe, 1885-1908 (J.E. Murray).-- 6. Urban real wages around the Eastern Mediterranean in comparative perspective, 1100-2000 (S. Pamuk).-- 7. Japanese unskilled wages in international perspective, 1741-1913 (J.-P. Bassino, D. Ma).-- 8. Relative British and American income levels during the first industrial revolution (M. Ward, J. Devereux).

• Includes eight papers out of which five were submitted through regular channels and three papers which were solicited at the conference Toward a Global History of Prices and Wages. This work also includes Nonnenmachers study of the early years of the telegraph industry in the United States.

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