Hours at work and total factor productivity growth in nineteenth-century U.S. agriculture / Lee A. Craig, Thomas Weiss -- Factor endowments and contract choice / Alan Dye -- Moral hazard and asset specificity in the Renaissance : the economics of sharecropping in 1427 Florence / Francesco L. Galassi -- Squatting and the settlement of the United States : new evidence from post-gold rush California / Karen Clay, Werner Troesken -- The social prologue to the civil rights movement / Jay R. Mandle -- Migration, labor market dynamics, and wage differentials in Hawaii's sugar industry, 1901-1915 / Sumner J. La Croix, Price Fishback -- Did the black-white income gap close during the late nineteenth century? / Anthony Patrick O'Brien -- Cooperation and cooperatives in Southern European wine production / James Simpson.

This first volume in the series Advances in Agricultural Economic History, includes articles on the topics of Italian sharecropping, agricultural wage discrimination, factor endowment and contract choice, as well as new total factor productivity measures for the United States.

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