Regional Differences in Costs and Productivity in the American Cotton Manufacturing Industry, 1880–1910

Abstract

I. Introductory. Concept of the “region,” 533.— II. Labor cost per unit of labor and per unit of product, 536.—III. Regional differences in wages, 537. — Gratuities and payments in kind, 542. — Real wages, 544. — IV. The supply of labor, 545.—Legislative and other restrictions, 548.—V. Differences in productivity, 552. — Spinners and weavers, 558. — VI. Conclusions, 564.