Six centuries of work and wages : the history of English labour / James E. Thorold Rogers.

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Main Author: Rogers, James E. Thorold (James Edwin Thorold), 1823-1890
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Routledge library editions. Economic history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • ch. 2. Rural England : social life
  • ch. 3. Rural England : agricultural
  • ch. 4. Town life
  • ch. 5. The distribution of wealth and trade
  • ch. 6. Society, wages, profits
  • ch. 7. The king and his extraordinary revenues
  • ch. 8. The famine and the plague
  • ch. 9. Discontent, combination, insurrection
  • ch. 10. The landlord's remedies
  • ch. 11. The development of taxation
  • ch. 12. Labour and wages
  • ch. 13. The clergy till the reformation
  • ch. 14. Wages of labour after the rise in prices
  • ch. 15. The English poor law
  • ch. 16. English husbandry from the rise in prices
  • ch. 17. Agriculture and agricultural wages in the eighteenth century
  • ch. 18. Wages in the nineteenth century
  • ch. 19. The present situation
  • ch. 20. Remedies.