82 Industrial Characteristics and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
- Chulhee Lee
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Abstract
This study explores how industry-specific technological, organizational, and managerial features affected the employment of older male manufacturing workers in the early-twentieth-century United States. Industrial characteristics that were favorably related to the employment of older industrial workers include: higher labor productivity, less capital- and material-intensive production, a shorter workday, lower intensity of work, greater job flexibility, and more formalized employment relationship. The technological transformations in the Industrial Era probably brought mixed consequences to the labor-market status of older workers, and the experiences of individual workers were heterogeneous.