Excerpt from Historical Review of Wages and Prices, 1752 1860: From the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Massachussetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor The Bureau has, from time to time, devoted considerable attention to the important subject of wages and cost of living. The chapters upon this topic presented in the annual report for 1879, and in subsequent issues, have quite fully covered the period between 1860 and 1884. It was determined, therefore, to collect during the current year all available data respecting wages and prices in the early part of the century, and to bring the investigation forward to 1860 so as to connect such data with that already published. Statistics of this sort seemed necessary properly to complete the history of the industrial development of Massachusetts, and the work, if undertaken at all, demanded immediate action, as the information, scattered through Old account books, bills and miscellaneous papers, was rapidly passing out of existence. The present Part contains the results of the work of the Bureau in this direction, the tabular matter relating to wages and prices being accompanied by such historical, explanatory, and comparative statements as are deemed proper adequately to portray the social conditions surrounding the laborer to-day and in the past. 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.