"Insufficient for the support of a family": Wages on the public works during the great Irish Famine

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-239

  McGregor, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; FAMINE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PRICE DYNAMICS; WAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4744370855     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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