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
|or to 20_d._ sterling.
| |Per year, with food and lodging, in towns, 50 to 60 _fl._; in
| |villages, 20 to 40 _fl._; without food and lodging, 150 _fl._,
| |but with food and wood under market price in winter.
| | |. . . .
| | | |Per week, 42 _kr._ to 1_fl._ 30 _kr._; in
| | | |manufactures, 1 _fl._ 40 _kr._ to 2 _fl._ 30 _kr._
| | | | |Per week, 20 to 40 _kr._; in manufactures, 1
| | | | |_fl._ 12 _kr._ to 2 _fl._
| | | | | |Per year, from 40 to 50 _fl._ The children
| | | | | |too much in school to earn much (supposed to
| | | | | |include man’s wages.)
| | | | | | |They could. In the morning, soup and
| | | | | | |potatoes and bread; dinner, vegetables
| | | | | | |or pudding; between dinner and supper,
| | | | | | |bread; supper, potatoes and milk or
| | | | | | |soup; once or twice a week, meat.
| | | | | | |
Government Return, p. 525
|_A_) A grown-up female--
|
| _a_) By spinning and ordinary knitting can seldom gain more than 4,
|6, or 8 _kr._ daily; by finer knitting, embroidery, lace-making, and
|other such female work, which are paid by the piece, can seldom gain
|more than from 10 to 25 _kr._ one day with another.
|
| _b_) A sempstress receives, in the country, in small places, from 4
|to 6 _kr._, in larger places and towns, from 12 to 15 _kr._; in the
|capital, a dress-maker, an ironer, a plaiter, from 24, 36 to 48 _kr._
|daily, besides board.
|
| _c_) A washerwoman or charwoman receives in the country only 8, 10,
|12, 15 to 18 _kr._; in the capital, 36 _kr._ daily, with board; or
|without board, from 1 _fl._ to 1 _fl._ 12 _kr._
|
| _d_) A maid servant receives, in money and money’s worth, annually,
|besides board, in the country only 16, 18, 20, to 24 _fl._; in the
|capital, 24, 30, 36 to 40 _fl._; to which, according to
|circumstances, vails are to be added, especially in the capital.
|
|_B_) A male adult receives, namely--
|
| _a_) A journeyman workman--
|
| _aa_) In the country, with the shoemakers and tailors, 20, 24, to
|30 _kr._; with the bakers, 48 _kr._ to 1 _fl._; with the smiths, 48
|_kr._ to 1 _fl._ 12 _kr._; with calendrers and tanners, 48 _kr._ to 2
|_fl._ weekly, with board; a journeyman carpenter or bricklayer, from
|30 to 36 kr. daily, with bread and something to drink.
|
| _bb_) In the capital, with board, from 1 _fl._ 12 _kr._ to 2
|_fl._ 42 _kr._ weekly; without board, 36 _kr._ to 1_fl._ daily; on
|Sunday, nothing.
|
| _b_) A man servant receives, in the country, 20, 30, 36, to 40
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