Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, Vol. 145, III. (See overleaf)[1]
Dr. Carl von Tyszka: “Wages and Living Costs in Western Europe in the Nineteenth Century” (Leipzig, 1914).
A very detailed summary of French and British, and an abbreviated summary of Spanish, Belgian and German data. The results are in Britain’s favour. Summary Table (abbreviated by me):
Index: 1900 = 100. Comparative movement of real wages:
| Years | Britain | Prussia | South | Germany | France | Spain | Belgium |
| 1870 | 53.8 | 57.8 | (1875: 93.0) | 69.0 | 51.0 | ||
| 1885 | 68.2 | 56.1 | 90.9 | 74.5 | (1890: 89.5) | 78.6 | |
| 1900 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| 1910 | 92.2 | 82.9 | 99.5 | 106.0 | 102.0 | 86.5 in 1905 |
Thanks to free trade, Britain suffered least from the increased cost of living (p. 289 and other passages).
Britain earlier became an “industrial country” (p. 101), and prices adapted themselves to a greater extent, passing completely onto this basis.
(94—the increase in wages proves to be less if one takes “weighed” averages, i.e., takes into account the greater increases in the lower-paid occupations. He cites data for 26 branches of the German engineering works.)
N.B. But it applies to all other industries.
N.B. Vol. 145: “Living Costs in the Large Towns” (I-IV).
N.B. || A very detailed (in 145, IV, 1915) work on Hamburg (1890-). Prices and budgets, consumption, rents, etc., compared with London.
Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik.
Vol. 140. II. “Urban Milk Supplies” (1914).
Fragmentary data on individual dairy farms (number of cows; output, etc.).
The development of retail and co-operative marketing of milk; ousting of beer (feebly and seldom).
Detailed data on prices.
Vol. 140. V. “Public Supplies of Milk in Germany” (1914).
|| Hans Hess: “The Electron in Various Fields of Physics.” Himmel und Erde, 1915, March (No. 3). (27th year, No. 3).
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[1] See p. 746 of this volume.—Ed.
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