Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Hatcher, John (Editor), Stephenson, Judy Z. (Editor)
Summary:	XIV, 318 p. 32 illus. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
Subjects:	Economic history. Social history. Labor economics. Economics > History. Econometrics. Economic History. Social History. Labor Economics. History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Quantitative Economics.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

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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