cottonworkers: Occupation and wage profiles of British cotton workers
Description
Numbers are given in different categories of worker, in each of
two investigations. The first source of information is the
Board of Trade Census that was conducted on 1886. The second
is a relatively informal survey conducted by US Bureau of
Labor representatives in 1889, for use in official reports.
Usage
data(cottonworkers)
Arguments
source
United States congress, House of Representatives, Sixth Annual Report
of the Commissioner of Labor, 1890, Part III, Cost of Living
(Washington D.C. 1891); idem., Seventh Annual Report
of the Commissioner of Labor, 1891, Part III, Cost of Living
(Washington D.C. 1892)
Return of wages in the principal textile trades of the United Kingdom,
with report therein. (P.P. 1889, LXX). United Kingdom Official
Publication.
Details
The data in survey1889 were collected in a relatively informal
manner, by approaching individuals on the street. Biases might
therefore be expected.
References
Boot and Maindonald. New estimates of age- and sex-specific earnings,
and the male-female earnings gap in the British cotton industry,
1833-1906. Unpublished manuscript.