Gregory Clark
The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209–2004
University of California, Davis
use building workers wages 12092004 skill premium consider causes consequences industrial revolution real wages trendless 1800 would predicted malthusian era comparing wages population however suggests break technological stagnation malthusian era came around 1640 long classic industrial revolution even arrival modern democracy 1689 building wages also conflict human capital interpretations industrial revolution modeled gary becker kevin murphy robert tamura oded galor david weil robert lucas human capital accumulation began rewards skills unchanged fertility increasing