Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills, and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880–1900
假设美国南方纺织业的发展受限于1870年大多数有经验的工人集中在皮德蒙特地区，因此工厂为雇佣熟练工而选址于此，并解释了白人劳动力占主导的成因。
This paper offers the hypothesis that the development of the textile industry in the South was shaped by the fact that by 1870 most experienced workers lived in the Piedmont. Thus, a firm which wished to hire experienced workers would have been led to choose the Piedmont; similarly, mills producing more difficult finer count cloth would have chosen the Piedmont in order to hire experienced workers. Finally, the persistence of a virtually all white workforce may be explained by the fact that most experienced workers were white and would have resisted working in integrated mills.