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Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

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The New History of Capitalism

In arizona, where they were growing long staple, very long staple, and upland cotton side by side, t picking rates was roughly what we saw in the anti balam period. In both there is, it's a task activity where people have individual quotas ore. They don't pick as a team, and the team is not these records generally don't show what everyone picked as a unit. For when paul says, we have a million observations, those are a million daily observationsf what individuals get.

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