OF THE

WORKING CLASSES,

WITH SOME FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR ECONOMIC
CONDITION, DRAWN FROM AUTHENTIC

AND OFFICIAL SOURCES,

IN A REPORT TO MICHAEL T. BASS, Esq., M.P.

BY LEONE LEVI, F.S.S., F.S.A.

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARR ́STER-AT-LAW,

PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF COMMERCE IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
DOCTOR OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN.

CENERAL

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.

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Wages

Appropriation of Wages

Trade Societies

Letter from M. T. Bass, Esq. M.P.

Estimates of the Earnings of the Working Classes of the United

Kingdom

CLASS I.-PROFESSIONAL.

Order I. Persons engaged in the General or Local Government

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CLASS II.-DOMESTIC.

V. Persons engaged in Entertaining and performing Per-

VII. Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men, Animals,

Goods, and Messages

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CLASS IV.-AGRICULTURAL.

VIII. Persons working the Land, and engaged in growing

Grain, Fruits, Grasses, and other Products, and

attending to Animals

IX. Persons engaged about Animals ..

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