Research

William A. Sundstrom
Department of Economics
Santa Clara University
E-mail: wsundstrom@scu.edu
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Curriculum vitae

Unpublished working papers:

"Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History" with Joshua L. Rosenbloom, NBER Working Paper 15055 (June 2009)

"The Challenge of Climate Change Policy: A White Paper for Teaching" (May 2009)

"From Quasi-Private To Quasi-Public: The Development Of Local Libraries In The United States, 1870-1930" with Michael Kevane (April 2007)

"Expansion of Public Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930" with Michael Kevane (May 2006)

"The College Gender Gap in Comparative Perspective, 1950-2000" (October 2004)

"The College Gender Gap in the United States, 1940-2000: Trends and International Comparisons" (March 2004)

"From Servants to Secretaries:  The Occupations of African-American Women, 1940-1980"  (May 2000)

"The Overworked American or the Overestimated Workweek?  Trend and Bias in Recent Estimates of Weekly Work Hours in the United States"  (November 1999)

"The Great Migration and the Economic Status of African-Americans Since the Great Depression: Puzzles and Paradoxes"  (March 1998)

Published articles, etc.

"The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre-Civil Rights South," Journal of Economic History 67 (June 2007), 410-44.

"Hours and Conditions of Work," in Susan B. Carter, Scott S. Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright, eds., Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

"The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990" (with Joshua L. Rosenbloom), Research in Economic History 22 (2004), 289-325. (Link to NBER version.)

"Introduction" (with Timothy W. Guinnane and Warren Whatley), in Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley, eds., History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004), 1-19.

"Discouraging Times: The Labor Force Participation of Married Black Women, 1930-1940," Explorations in Economic History 38 (January 2001), 123-146.

"The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing, 1919-1937" (with Joshua L. Rosenbloom), Journal of Economic History 59 (September 1999), 714-47.

"The Emergence, Persistence, and Recent Widening of the Racial Unemployment Gap" (with Robert W. Fairlie), Industrial and Labor Relations Review 52 (January 1999), 252-270.

"The Decline of Labor Force Participation among Married Black Women, 1930-1940," Proceedings of the Twelfth International Economic History Congress B17 (Sevilla, 1998), 151-165.

"The Racial Unemployment Gap in Long-Run Perspective" (with Robert W. Fairlie), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 87 (May 1997), 306-310.

"Explaining the Racial Unemployment Gap: Race, Region, and the Employment Status of Men, 1940," Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50 (April 1997), 460-77.

"Down or Out: Changes in the Employment and Occupational Status of Urban Black Men During the Great Depression," Research in Economic History 16 (1996), 127-55.

"The Color Line: Racial Norms and Discrimination in Urban Labor Markets, 1910-1950," Journal of Economic History 54 (June 1994), 382-96.

"The Decline in Hours of Work in U.S. Labour Markets, 1890-1903" (with Joshua L. Rosenbloom), in George Grantham and Mary MacKinnon, eds., Labour Market Evolution: The Economic History of Market Integration, Wage Flexibility and the Employment Relation (London: Routledge, 1994), 161-84.

"Occupational Differences in the Dispersion of Wages and Working Hours: Labor Market Integration in the United States, 1890-1903" (with Joshua L. Rosenbloom), Explorations in Economic History 30 (October 1993), 379-408.

"Rigid Wages or Small Equilibrium Adjustments? Evidence from the Contraction of 1893," Explorations in Economic History 29 (October 1992), 430-55.

"Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the Great Depression," Journal of Economic History 52 (June 1992), 415-29.

"Half a Career: Discrimination and Railroad Internal Labor Markets," Industrial Relations 29 (Fall 1990), 423-40.

"Was There a Golden Age of Flexible Wages? Evidence from Ohio Manufacturing, 1892-1910," Journal of Economic History 50 (June 1990), 309-20.

"Organizational Failures and Wage Determination: A Historical Case Study," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 10 (September 1988), 201-24.

"Internal Labor Markets before World War I: On-the-Job Training and Employee Promotion," Explorations in Economic History 25 (October 1988), 424-45.

"Old-Age Security Motives, Labor Markets, and Farm-Family Fertility in Antebellum America" (with Paul A. David), Explorations in Economic History 25 (April 1988), 164-97.

Book Reviews

Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal, on-line review, eh.net (August 2007).

Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? by James J. Heckman and Alan B. Krueger, Journal of Economic Literature 43 (June 2005).

Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America, by Stephen H. Norwood, on-line review, eh.net (August 2003).

On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past?, edited by David Neumark, Journal of Economic Literature 41 (March 2003), 237-238.

Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, by Robert J. Steinfeld, Business History Review 76 (Summer 2002), 347-350.

Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal, by David Brian Robertson, on-line review, eh.res@eh.net (January 2002).

Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945, by William A. Darity, Jr., and Samuel L. Myers, Jr., on-line review, eh.res@eh.net (February 2000).

Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990, by Daniel Nelson, on-line review, eh.res@eh.net (August 1997).

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers, by Michael K. Honey, Journal of Economic History 55 (March 1995), 193-195.

Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930, by Price V. Fishback, Journal of Economic Literature 31 (December 1993), 2007-2008.

Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History, edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, Business History Review 67 (Spring 1993), 151-153.

Masters to Managers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers, edited by Sanford M. Jacoby, Journal of Economic History 52 (September 1992), 735-737.