Excerpt from Report on Standard Piece Rates of Wages and Sliding Scales in the United Kingdom, 1900 The present Report on Standard Piece Rates of Wages and Sliding Scales in force in the United Kingdom at the beginning of 1900 has been prepared in continuation of the Volume on Standard Piece. Rates which formed Part II. Of the first Report of the Labour Department on Wages and Hours of Labour, published in 1894. A selection has been made from some of the more important Lists in force in the various trades in which this system of remuneration prevails, with introductions and notes designed to render the Lists intelligible to students unconnected with those industries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.