First Published in 2005. This book includes the history of labour and wages from the reign of Henry II in 1258 to the nineteenth century. To give context to the wages of workers it also includes the general prices of the time in order to estimate the purchasing power of those wages, as well as the conditions of rural and town life and the distribution of wealth and trade.
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James E. Thorold Rogers
Zusammenfassung
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Rural England - Social life Chapter 3. Rural England - Agriculture Chapter 4. Town life Chapter 5. The distribution of wealth and trade Chapter 6. Society - Wages - Profits Chapter 7. The King and his extraordinairy revenues Chapter 8. The famine and the plague Chapter 9. Discontent - Combination- Insurrection Chapter 10. The Landlord's remedies Chapter 11. The development of taxation Chapter 12. Labour and wages Chapter 13. The clergy till the reformation Chapter 14. Wages of labour after the rise in prices Chapter 15. The English poor law Chapter 16. English Husbandry from the rise in prices Chapter 17. Agriculture and agricultural wages in the eighteenth century Chapter 18. Wages in the nineteenth century Chapter 19. The present situation