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The American Manufacturing Frontier, 1870-1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Robert F. Severson Jr.
Robert F. Severson Jr.
Affiliation:
Faculty Adviser atUniversity of Illinois
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Abstract

Difficult statistical problems notwithstanding, it is possible to trace the course in time and place of a gradual transition from agrarian to industrial pursuits. On occasion, this transition was slowed or reversed by cyclical influences, but the long-term trend of manufacturing concentration was away from the East. As the manufacturing frontier shifted, the service industries moved in and currently employ much of the capital and labor of the old industrial centers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1960 , pp. 356 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1960

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