England's Eighteenth Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship: Evidence from Apprenticeship, 1710-1770
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Keywords
Industrial Revolution; skills; high quality workmen; wrights; mechanization; apprenticeship;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
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