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Work and wages : being a popular edition (abridged) of "Six centuries of work and wages" / by James E. Thorold Rogers ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1890 Rogers
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, James E. Thorold (James Edwin Thorold), 1823-1890.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--Great Britain--History.
- Wages.
- Working class--Great Britain.
- Working class.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1890.
- Physical Description:
- 206 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Swan Sonnenschein, [1890?]
- Contents:
- The famine and the plague
- Labour and wages
- Wages of labour after the rise in prices
- The English Poor Law
- Agriculture and agricultural wages in the eighteenth century
- Wages in the nineteenth century
- The present situation
- Remedies.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Red cloth binding with black writing on cover and gold writing on spine. Cover also features publishers' logo, of two unicorns holding a crest with initials over a banner reading "Ardua quae pulcra."
- OCLC:
- 6480063
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