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Published by HM Stationery Office (London). The returns of wages are arranged by industry, and include information about regional variations. Industries covered include: manufacture of pig iron (blast furnaces), engineering and machinery works, iron and steel shipbuilding, tin-plate works, manufacture of brass work and metal wares, saw mills, wood shipbuilding, cooperage works, coach and carriage building, boot and shoe factories (indoor workers), breweries, distilleries, manufacture of bricks and tiles, chemical manure works, railway carriage and wagon building works, printing and engraving trades, bespoke tailoring trade (indoor workers), dressmaking, millinery and mantle-making, baby linen and ladies' underclothing trade (indoor workers), building trades, railways, merchant navy, Royal Navy, army, domestic service in large households, hospitals and infirmaries, lunatic asylums, agriculture.

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