Wages in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century : notes for the use of students of social and economic questions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowley, A. L. (Arthur Lyon), 1869-1957
Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : University Press, 1900.
Series:Making of the modern world. Part 2 (1851-1914)
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Table of Contents:
  • section 1. General object and method
  • section 2. Nature of material and chief authorities
  • section 3. Meaning and use of "the average wage"
  • section 4. Agricultural wages in England
  • section 5. Agricultural wages in Sussex. Wages contrasted with earnings
  • section 6. Course of wages in Ireland
  • section 7. Scotch agriculture
  • section 8. General view of course of wages obtained by a study of two occupations
  • section 9. General estimates of wages hitherto published
  • section 10. Printers' wages
  • section 11. Wages of seamen
  • section 12. Special study of wages in the building trades
  • section 13. Coal miners' wages. Complete sequence of wages in South Scotland
  • section 14. The textile industries : hand-loom weavers : wool
  • section 15. Cotton
  • section 16. The iron trades
  • section 17. Conclusion.