1st Edition

Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851 Lancashire, Cheshire & Yorkshire

By Jules Ginswick Copyright 1983
332 Pages
by Routledge

229 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1983. In October 1849 a London newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, announced to its middle-class readers that it was to undertake a survey of the condition of the labouring classes in England and Wales under the general title of “Labour and the Poor”. The reports of the survey were published over a period of two years and provided the mid-nineteenth-century Englishman with the... Read more
Introduction; Appendix 1: Average Weekly Wages in Secondary Industry, England and Wales 1849-1851, by Industry; Appendix 2: Average Weekly Wages in Secondary Industry, England and Wales 1849-1851, by Size of Wage, Sex, Trade, Location; Select Bibliography: Great Britain 1750-1850; I LANCASHIRE II CHESHIRE III YORKSHIRE

Biography

Jules Ginswick