Real incomes of the British middle class, 1760-1850: The experience of clerks at the East India Company

Economic History Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 638-668

  Boot, H M ^a  

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CLASS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; WAGE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033510293     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.00141     Document Type: Article

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