Wages in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century : notes for the use of students of social and economic questions / by Arthur L. Bowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowley, A. L. (Arthur Lyon), 1869-1957.

Series:

Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914.

The Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wages--Great Britain.

Wages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 1 unnumbered page, 148 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

J. and C.F. Clay

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : University Press, 1900.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Learning, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

OCLC:

300975130

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.