Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Issues 604-607U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - Labor |
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... American money . Prices of commodities used as barter .. Contemporary data on prices_- CHAPTER 3. - The indenture system of labor . " Indentured servants " and " redemptioners ' Importance of system .. Character of indentured servants ...
... American money . Prices of commodities used as barter .. Contemporary data on prices_- CHAPTER 3. - The indenture system of labor . " Indentured servants " and " redemptioners ' Importance of system .. Character of indentured servants ...
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... American wages from early colonial days to the present time . The picture is drawn necessarily in rather broad ... America . The printed reports containing these early data are for the most part long out of print and the unpublished ...
... American wages from early colonial days to the present time . The picture is drawn necessarily in rather broad ... America . The printed reports containing these early data are for the most part long out of print and the unpublished ...
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... American history . Economic histories , to be sure , deal with wages , occasionally quite completely for a given era , locality , or trade , but even in them wages are incidental to the main theme . So far there has been no publication ...
... American history . Economic histories , to be sure , deal with wages , occasionally quite completely for a given era , locality , or trade , but even in them wages are incidental to the main theme . So far there has been no publication ...
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... American equivalent . No comparison with the present - day purchas- ing value of that American equivalent is undertaken . Where contem- porary evidence has been obtained which is suggestive of living costs and what the wages paid meant ...
... American equivalent . No comparison with the present - day purchas- ing value of that American equivalent is undertaken . Where contem- porary evidence has been obtained which is suggestive of living costs and what the wages paid meant ...
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... American History Told by Contemporaries ( Governor Winthrop's Journal quoted ) , Vol . I , p . 374 . Thomas , Gabriel : An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Countrey of Pen- silvania , published 1698 . Oldmixon ...
... American History Told by Contemporaries ( Governor Winthrop's Journal quoted ) , Vol . I , p . 374 . Thomas , Gabriel : An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Countrey of Pen- silvania , published 1698 . Oldmixon ...
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