Excerpt from Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850's Turning to an explanation of the still inadequately delimited Anglo American differences, we find that the British visitors of the 1850's had four different explanations: (1) the scarcity of labor in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.