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Comparative/World

Gary Bryan Magee. Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860–1914. (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History, number 4.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 293. $59.95.

The paper industry has ranked among the top five largest manufacturing businesses in the United States in terms of size, investment, and productivity for virtually all of the twentieth century. This status came after a phenomenal growth due to changes in technology and life styles. 1

The Civil War created an enormous demand for paper at precisely the time that the chief raw material, rags, was in short supply. By the end of the war, newsprint paper sold for more than twenty cents a pound. Demand also grew as the country moved west, for immigrants both from Europe and at home were more literate than before. Literacy and distance helped foster increased demand. In 1867, a workable process for producing the needed raw material, cellulose, from ground wood was patented. A decade later, this new product, wood pulp paper, dominated the newsprint industry. Within another fifteen years, other new methods of making wood pulp from resinous trees provided the industry with even greater growth potential. The 1880 and 1890 censuses both published special monographs on the paper industry, whose growth was so large that it seemed to presage a similar American growth elsewhere. . . .

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