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A Statement exhibiting at one view the wages of labour generally in the town of Manchester and the other principal seats of the cotton manufacture : with an account of the prices of sundry articles of provisions, and of the monies expended for the relief of the poor chargeable to the township of Manchester during the years 1810 to 1818, and to November 25th, 1819.

Bibliographic Details
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1820?]
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Poor > Services for > Great Britain. Cotton textile industry > Great Britain > Wages. Food prices. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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