A New Occupational/Industrial Coding System for 19th Century U.S. Heavy Industrial Workers

• Main Author: Richard Healey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Napp; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244015621116

Many census occupational classification systems have been developed over the last 150 years. Availability of digital census data sets now means such classifications can be systematically analyzed. Examination of heavy industrial workers in the full count U.S. 1880 census, and other censuses, has rev...