1st Edition
Six Centuries of Work and Wages The History of English Labour
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.
1. Introduction
2. Rural England - Social life
3. Rural England - Agriculture
4. Town life
5. The distribution of wealth and trade
6. Society - Wages - Profits
7. The King and his extraordinairy revenues
8. The famine and the plague
9. Discontent - Combination- Insurrection
10. The Landlord's remedies
11. The development of taxation
12. Labour and wages
13. The clergy till the reformation
14. Wages of labour after the rise in prices
15. The English poor law
16. English Husbandry from the rise in prices
17. Agriculture and agricultural wages in the eighteenth century
18. Wages in the nineteenth century
19. The present situation
Biography
James E. Thorold Rogers
