CHAPTER III 



AGRICULTURAL WAGES 



In dealing with wages in agricultural 



employment I propose to take a broad 



historical survey, and to begin, as in the 



case of rents and profits, with the mediseval 



period, or more particularly the period from 



the Norman Conquest to the end of the 



fifteenth century or the beginning of the 



Tudor period. 



Rogers has declared emphatically that 



the fifteenth century was the golden age 



of English labour, and as at that time the 



greater part of the labour was employed 



in agriculture, this means that it was in 



his opinion the golden age of agricultural 



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