Regulation of Wages by Lists in the Spinning Industry
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An 1899 economic history article by S. J. Chapman on how wages in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry came to be regulated by printed price lists. It traces the origins of private and district lists from about 1810 through the 1830s, their decline, and their revival at Preston, Bolton and Oldham, and corrects the 1887 British Association report on the date of the first list. It compares the Oldham and Bolton lists, discusses speed lists, a universal list, piece rates, piecers' wages, and sliding scales.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- December 1899
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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