When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as...

EXPERIENCING WAGES -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1. THE WAGE IN EUROPE SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER 2. INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAGE FORMATION: PORT LABOUR IN ANTWERP (SIXTEENTH-EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES) -- CHAPTER 3. WHEN LABOUR HIRES CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM LANCASHIRE, 1870-1914 --...