Susan B. Carter thanks Richard Sutch, Gavin Wright, Monty Hindman, and Matthew Sobek for valuable comments on the essay on the labor force. She thanks Victoria Nayak and Dustin Chambers for research assistance. The National Science Foundation and the Center for Social and Economic Policy at the University of California, Riverside, provided financial assistance.

Thomas Weiss thanks Matthew Sobek, who provided data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) used in the workforce tables. This work was supported in part by funding from the National Science Foundation.

William A. Sundstrom thanks Susan Carter for her comments and suggestions during the preparation of the essay. He also thanks Scott Blashek, George Carlson, Susan Carter, Monty Hindman, Matt Sobek, and Aklilu Zegeye for their assistance in preparing the tables. This work was made possible in part by funding from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Joshua L. Rosenbloom thanks Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson for their assistance in the preparation of several of the tables included in the section on unions, and especially for their efforts in compiling (from Current Population Survey tapes) the data on union membership by industry contained in Table Ba4870–4883.

Lee A. Craig thanks Laura Phillips for her assistance in preparing the tables in this chapter. Alastair Hall provided valuable comments on the essay, and Susan B. Carter was especially generous with her comments on and supplemental material for the essay on household production.