LABOR

IN

EUROPE AND AMERICA:

A SPECIAL REPORT

ON

THE RATES OF WAGES, THE COST OF SUBSISTENCE, AND THE CONDITION OF THE
WORKING CLASSES, IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, BELGIUM, GERMANY,

AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF EUROPE,

ALSO IN

THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH AMERICA.

BY

EDWARD YOUNG, PH. D.,

CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF STATISTICS.

Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.-TERENCE

PHILADELPHIA:

S. A. GEORGE & COMPANY,

15 NORTH SEVENTH ST.

1875.