caa a22 4500 386331138 CHVBK 20180307111714.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002205070000797X doi S002205070000797X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002205070000797X Elbaum Bernard Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. Why Apprenticeship Persisted in Britain But Not in the United States [Elektronische Daten] [Bernard Elbaum] During the nineteenth century, under free labor market contracting, apprenticeship persisted in Britain but declined in the United States. This article argues that apprenticeship endured in Britain because of its efficiency advantages and because of customs, inherited from the guilds, that favored training certification for entry into skilled jobs. By contrast, within the United States guild traditions were weaker, occupational certification was seldom required, and, as a result, indenture obligations were hard to enforce. Understandably, U.S. employers refrained from making training investments in potentially mobile apprentices. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/2(1989-06), 337-349 0022-0507 49:2<337 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070000797X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070000797X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Elbaum Bernard Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/2(1989-06), 337-349 0022-0507 49:2<337 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge