Introduction, Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff
Two Appreciations, Stanley L. Engerman, Donald N. McCloskey
I. Labor Markets in Manufacturing and Agriculture
1. The Market for Manufacturing Workers during Early Industrialization: The American Northeast, 1820 to 1860, Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Georgia C. Villaflor
2. Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets before the Civil War, Claudia Goldin and Robert A. Margo
3. Structural Change in the Farm Labor Force: Contract Labor in Massachusetts Agriculture, 1750-1865, Winifred B. Rothenberg
4. Farm Tenancy in the Antebellum North, Donghyu Yang
II. Markets in Capital and Credit
5. Regional Interest Rates in Antebellum America, Howard Bodenhorn and Hugh Rockoff
6. Money versus Credit Rationing: Evidence for the National Banking Era, 1880-1914, Michael D. Bordo, Peter Rappoport, and Anna J. Schwartz
7. Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Utah, David W. Galenson nad Clayne L. Pope
8. The Wealth of Women, 1774, Alice Hanson Jones
III. The Demography of Free and Slave Populations
9. Adult Mortality in America before 1900: A View from Family Histories, Clayne L. Pope
10. Toward an Anthropometric History of African-Americans: The Case of the Free Blacks in Antebellum Maryland, John Komlos
11. The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives, Stephen Crawford
12. The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses, Richard H. Steckel
13. Trading Quantity for Quality: Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century, Jenny Bourne Wahl
IV. Political Economy
14. The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway Companies, Ann M. Carlos and Frank Lewis
15. The Rise and Fall of Urban Political Patronage Machines, Joseph D. Reid, Jr., and Michael M. Kurth
16. Dividing Labor: Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth-Century America, Gerald Friedman