Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law ReportSenior, Nassau William
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Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe: Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report
Senior, Nassau William
Poor -- Europe; Poor -- United States; Working class
Southampton | 43 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 27
Stafford | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10
Suffolk | 26 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 10
Surrey | 20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13
Sussex | 68 | 21 | 18 | 7 | 22
Warwick | 31 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 22
Westmorland | 17 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5
Wilts | 24 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12
Worcester | 18 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9
York | 65 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 28
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TOTAL | 899 | 71 | 212 | 125 | 491
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Wages and subsistence of foreign labourers.
We now add a digest of the foreign answers to the corresponding
questions, and also to Question 6: “What can women and children under
16, earn per week in summer, in winter, and in harvest, and how
employed?” a question as to which the English answers do not admit of
tabular statement.
We have arranged the answers under seven heads: 1. Wages of artisans;
2. of agricultural labourers; 3. of labourers whom the author of the
return appears not to have included in either of the other two classes;
4. of women; 5. of children; 6. of the labourer’s wife and four
children; and 7. the food on which the supposed family could subsist,
on their average annual earnings and means of living.
DIGEST OF FOREIGN ANSWERS
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