Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages: The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past

Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages.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.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 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 in Eight English Farms, 1836-44.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.