This paper establishes the presence of the Kuznets curve in industrializing Britain, with inequality falling from 1867-68, at the same time the electorate was doubled. It weighs the relative importance of franchise extension against other variables in explaining the start of the downward...

Workers in many countries receive part of their wages in kind. The International Labor Organization criticizes this practice by citing the quot;exploitativequot; truck system in industrializing Britain, which paid wage advances in cash and company store goods. This article finds that truck did...