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Part B. Work and Welfare

Chapter Ba. Labor

Editor: Susan B. Carter

Associate editors: Lee A. Craig, Robert a. Margo, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Matthew Sobek, and William A. Sundstrom

Essays:

• Labor
• Labor force
• Occupations
• Wages and wage inequality
• Hours and working conditions
• Labor unions
• Household production

Tables:

• Workforce
• Employment and unemployment
• Employment, by industry
• Occupations
• Wages
• Hours and working conditions
• Labor unions
• Household production

Chapter Bb. Slavery

Editors: Stanley L. Engerman, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright

Associate editor: Susan B. Carter

Essay: Slavery

Tables:

• Slave population
• Slave prices and values
• Manumitted and fugitive slaves, and slave revolts

Chapter Bc. Education

Editor: Claudia Goldin

Essay: Education

Tables:

• Kindergarten, elementary, and secondary school
• Higher education
• Educational attainment
• earnings, by education
• Revenues and expenditures

Chapter Bd. Health

Editor: Richard H. Steckel

Essay: Health, nutrition, and physical well-being

Tables:

• Expenditures
• Hospitals
• Health care practitioners
• Health insurance
• Incidence of disease
• Nutrition and health-related behaviors
• Physical well-being

Chapter Be. Economic inequality and poverty

Editors: Peter H. Lindert [economic inequality]; Linda Barrington and Gordon M. Fisher [poverty]

Essays:

• The distribution of income and wealth
• Poverty

Tables:

• Distribution of income
• Distribution of wealth
• Mean and median income
• Poverty lines
• Characteristics of the poverty population

Chapter Bf. Social insurance and public assistance

Editor: Price V. Fishback

Associate editors: Joan Underhill Hannon, Melissa A. Thomasson, and Stephen T. Ziliak

Essays:

• Introduction
• Public assistance: colonial times in the 1920's
• Social welfare: 1929 to the present

Chapter Bg. Nonprofit, voluntary, and religious entities

Editor: Peter Dobkin Hall

Essay: Nonprofit, voluntary, and religious entities

Tables:

• Nonprofit institutions
• Voluntary associations
• Religion
• Philanthropy

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