Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...which the price of flour is shown to have been reduced in 1865 to one quarter of that of 1800. Giffen, in his table published in 1885, shows the range of prices from 1839 to 1884 and makes the statement in his introduction, that the condition of the workingman has improved vastly, since the purchasing power of money has doubled and he is earning an increase in wages of from forty to sixty per cent. Comparing the dates 1839 and 1884 further, he shows that in the former time an English laborer had 15 shillings left after paying his rent...