Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 The Tyranny of Numbers: Are There Acceptable Data for Nominal and Real Wages for Pre-modern China?

Chapter 4 What Is Wrong with the History of Wages: Or the Divide in Economic History—A Reappraisal Suggested by Eighteenth-Century Milan

Chapter 5 In Search of the Average Craftsman: Understanding Skilled Work and Wages in the Early Modern Building Trades and Wider Economy

Chapter 6 The Pay of Labourers and Unskilled Men on London Building Sites, 1650–1770

Chapter 7 What Is a Money Wage? Measuring the Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in Early Modern England

Chapter 8 Seasonal Patterns of Agricultural Day-Labour at Eight English Farms, 1835–1844

Chapter 9 Unreal Wages: Long-Run Living Standards and the ‘Golden Age’ of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 10 Cash, Wages, and the Economy of Makeshifts in England, 1650–1800