Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past

Hatcher, John; Stephenson, Judy Z.

Springer International Publishing AG

02/2019

318

Dura

Inglês

9783319969619

15 a 20 dias

560


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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages.- Chapter 3: The Tyranny of Numbers: Are There Acceptable Data for Nominal and Real Wages for Pre-Modern China?.- Chapter 4: What is Wrong with the History of Wages? Or the Divide in Economic History.- Chapter 5: In Search of the Average Craftsman: Understanding Skilled Work and Wages in the Early Modern Building Trades and Wider Economy.- Chapter 6: The Pay of Unskilled Men on London Building Sites, 1650-1770.- Chapter 7: What is a Money Wage? Measuring the Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in Early Modern England.- Chapter 8: Seasonal Patterns of Agricultural Day-Labour in Eight English Farms, 1836-44.- Chapter 9: Unreal Wages: Long-run Living Standards and the 'Golden Age' of the Fifteenth Century.- Chapter 10: Cash, Wages and the Economy of Makeshifts in England, 1650-1800.
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Real wages;Real wage series;Statistical methods;Living standards;Asia;Labour history;Pre-industrial;Industrialisation;Research methods;English Economic History;European Economic History;Asian Economic History;Historical GDP;Welfare history;Wage history