The Black Death spurred monarchies and city-states across much of Western Europe to formulate new wage and price legislation. These legislative acts splintered in a multitude of directions that to date defy any obvious patterns of economic or political rationality. A comparison of labour laws in...

Union Choices Affect Wages -- Strikes and wages -- Strikes and wages -- Empty victories, harmless defeats -- Is what you ask for what you get? -- The state versus managers -- Militancy and accommodation -- Schism and steering -- The limits of militancy -- Making strikes pay.