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The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis of Its Context, Causes, and Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Robert Whaples
Robert Whaples
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 454 - 457
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1991

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References

1 This dissertation was completed in 1990 at the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo. Much of it was completed while I was an Andrew Mellon Fellow with the Program for Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences at Pennsylvania.Google Scholar

2 Bernanke, Ben S., “Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression: An Analysis of Eight Manufacturing Industries,” American Economic Review, 76 (03. 1986), pp. 82–109.Google Scholar