A century of pay: the course of pay and production in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, 1860-1960 /

By:

Brown, Ernest Henry Phelps

Contributor(s):

Browne, Margaret H

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P. , c1968.Description: 476 pSubject(s):

DDC classification:

331.21 BRO

LOC classification:

HD4906 .B73

Summary: PROFESSOR PHELPS BROWN and his collaborator survey and interpret in this major work trends in money wages, real wages, production, distribution and a number of related variables in five countries over a period of a hundred years. The book is a mine of ideas no less than of information. The hundred years are broken into three periods, 1860-1913, 1920-38 and 1946-60, which are treated in turn. Each is the subject of two chapters, the first one dealing with levels at a benchmark year and the second, and longer one, with trends over time. The main purpose of the chapters on levels is to establish the relative positions of the five countries. These chapters also serve to indicate movements across the two wars, which are not otherwise explicitly treated. The presentation of the statistics takes up much of the text; according to the authors (p. 34), the collection of the data took up the major part of their time. The basic sources are series on the individual countries prepared by other scholars, but these have been very extensively processed to put them in comparable and usable form. The main statistical series are supplemented by a wide range of micro-data and non-quantitative evidence.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	331.21 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100143615

Includes bibliographical references: p. [453]-461 and index.

PROFESSOR PHELPS BROWN and his collaborator survey and interpret in this major work trends in money wages, real wages, production, distribution and a number of related variables in five countries over a period of a hundred years. The book is a mine of ideas no less than of information. The hundred years are broken into three periods, 1860-1913, 1920-38 and 1946-60, which are treated in turn. Each is the subject of two chapters, the first one dealing with levels at a benchmark year and the second, and longer one, with trends over time. The main purpose of the chapters on levels is to establish the relative positions of the five countries. These chapters also serve to indicate movements across the two wars, which are not
otherwise explicitly treated. The presentation of the statistics takes up much of the text; according to the authors (p. 34), the collection of the data took up the major part of their time. The basic sources are series on the individual countries prepared by other scholars, but these have been very extensively processed to put them in comparable and usable form. The main statistical series are supplemented by a wide range of micro-data and non-quantitative evidence.

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