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§ 3. I^LUCTUATIONS ESf WAGES. 



Tliis is not the place to examine whether the fluctuations in wages were 

 a consequence or a cause of the rise in prices or whether they have been 

 partly cause and partly efEect. We shall confine ourselves to an examin- 

 ation of these fluctuations and to considering the relation they bear to the 

 fluctuations in price. In the following paragraphs we shall study a little 

 more in detail the distribution of the wages of workmen's famiUes, especially 

 of agricultural labourers' famihes, and derive from them conclusions some- 

 what different from those that have hitherto been drawn from them as 

 a rule. 



Continuing the application of the method we have before made use of, 

 we shall again take 100 as the index number for the average wages 

 in 1900. 



The total amount of these wages for the principal classes of labourers 

 in 1900 was as follows : 



(a) Agricultural Labourers. 



Domestic Servants , 



Day lyabourers 



Silkworm breeders. 



Men 

 Women 



^ Men 

 ( Women 

 ^ Men 

 I Women 



yen 



Silk Spinners. 

 Gardeners . . 

 Fishermen . . 



yen 



(b) Various Factory Hands: 



Weavers \ ^^j 



( Women 



Joiners 



Thatchers 



Manufacturers of Articles of 



Esparto 



Carpet Makers 



Locksmiths 



Pottery Makers 



Paper Makers 



Printers 



Compositors 



Ives us now see what increase there was in these wages for the period 

 1902-11. We shall use the index numbers for the purpose. 



