1st Edition

Six Centuries of Work and Wages The History of English Labour

By James E. Thorold Rogers Copyright 2006
    600 Pages
    by Routledge

    600 Pages
    by Routledge

    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