Guilds in the Middle Ages

Employers’ Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories. By E. Dorothea Proud, B.A., C.B.E. With a Foreword by the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister. Demy 8vo. Second Edition. 8s. 6d. net.
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By B. L. Hutchins. With a Chapter on the 1906 Wage Census by J. J. Mallon. 4s. 6d. net.
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An Enquiry into the Causes which contribute to the making of the Prostitute. With a Foreword by A. Maude Royden. Second Edition. 3s. net.
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Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages. By Henry Atkinson, Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Engineer Expert to the Mixed Tribunal, Cairo. Paper, 1s. net. Cloth, 1s. 6d. net.
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