OF THE

WORKING CLASSES,

WITH SOME FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR ECONOMIC
CONDITION, DRAWN FROM AUTHENTIC

AND OFFICIAL SOURCES,

IN A REPORT TO MICHAEL T. BASS, Esq., M.P.

BY LEONE LEVI, F.S.S., F.S.A.

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF COMMERCE IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
DOCTOR OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1867.

232. e. 42.

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INTRODUCTION:

The Work and the Workers

Appropriation of Wages

Trade Societies

Letter from M. T. Bass, Esq. M.P.

Estimates of the Earnings of the Working Classes of the United

Kingdom

V. Persons engaged in Entertaining and performing Per-

sonal Offices for Man

..

CLASS III.-COMMERCIAL.

VII. Persons engaged in the Conveyance of Men, Animals,

Goods, and Messages

CLASS IV.-AGRICULTURAL.

VIII. Persons working the Land, and engaged in growing

Grain, Fruits, Grasses, and other Products, and