A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Volume 1

John Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen Laura Sumner, John Bertram Andrews

A.H. Clark Company, 1910 - Labor

Contents

• GENERAL PREFACE by Richard T Ely: 19
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION by John Bates Clark: 33
• INTRODUCTION to Volumes I and II by Ulrich B Phillips: 69
• BIBLIOGRAPHY Volumes I and II: 105
• The inconvenience of a rigid labor supply: 130
• Accounts of expenses crops and sales on a seaisland cotton: 150
• Management of scattered plantations Georgia 18441849: 167
• Plantation byindustries: 186
• i Extract from a letter of James Gunnelly to Miss: 195
• Routine of work on a great sugar plantation: 214
• Cotton Routine: 231
• TYPES OF PLANTATION: 245
• Rice: 259
• Indigo account of its introduction as a staple in South Caro: 265
• Upland cotton methods: 276
• Uncertainty of returns in tobacco: 282
• A Georgia planter buys negro clothes in London: 293
• Flour Cod fish and Vegetables from the North: 299
• An efficient factor and broker in Charleston: 307
• Embarrassments from debt: 321
• The routine problems and policies of an efficient overseer: 330
• Assistant overseers: 336
• INDENTED WHITES: 339
• Runaway redemptioners and convicts: 346
• Indented artisans: 352
• The autobiography of a criminally disposed redemptioner: 357
• Career and observations of a high grade redemptioner: 366
• Convict transportation vicissitudes: 372

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Volume 1; A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Volume 1 of A Documentary History of American Industrial Society: Ed. by John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips, Eugene A. Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews. Prepared Under the Auspices of the American Bureau of Industrial Research, with the Co-operation of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. With Preface by Richard T. Ely and Introduction by John B. Clark, American Bureau of Industrial Research
• Editors: John Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen Laura Sumner, John Bertram Andrews
• Contributors: American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Publisher: A.H. Clark Company, 1910
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 22, 2005