Labor Productivity and Managerial Efficiency against a Static Technology: The Pennsylvania Iron Industry, 1750–1800
研究了18世纪宾夕法尼亚一家铁厂在技术不变的情况下，通过干中学提高劳动生产率并降低燃料消耗，对1800年前后钢铁工业绩效有参考价值。
An increase in labor productivity and a reduction of fuel consumption rates were two notable and closely related achievements of the management of Hopewell Forge, an ironworks in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Significantly, these economies were realized in the face of technological stasis through learning by doing. The analysis of this accomplishment is cast in the larger context of the performance of the iron industry before and after 1800.