The Quarterly Review, Volume 108William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1860 - English literature |
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Page 87
... wages ( he adds ) paid to the various trades in Manchester and the neighbourhood during the twenty years from 1839 to 1859 shows that in the cotton trade the advance of wages has averaged from 10 to 25 per cent . In the silk trade an ...
... wages ( he adds ) paid to the various trades in Manchester and the neighbourhood during the twenty years from 1839 to 1859 shows that in the cotton trade the advance of wages has averaged from 10 to 25 per cent . In the silk trade an ...
Page 89
... wages that must go a good way towards their main- tenance . ' Similar high rates of wages prevail throughout Yorkshire and the other manufacturing districts , where women and children also largely contribute to increase the united ...
... wages that must go a good way towards their main- tenance . ' Similar high rates of wages prevail throughout Yorkshire and the other manufacturing districts , where women and children also largely contribute to increase the united ...
Page 90
... wages been reduced since 1833 ; that the ' average increase was 12 per cent . , and in one instance 40 per cent . ' The highest rates of wages , however , are those which pre- vail in the iron trade , which has recently sprung into ...
... wages been reduced since 1833 ; that the ' average increase was 12 per cent . , and in one instance 40 per cent . ' The highest rates of wages , however , are those which pre- vail in the iron trade , which has recently sprung into ...
Contents
Tribes Presented to both Houses of Parliament | 120 |
Memoir of the Life of the late Ary Scheffer By | 162 |
A Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire Dorsetshire | 200 |
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