Excerpt from Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor: March 1898 Increases or decreases m various branches of the same industry, and the resultant effect upon the industry as regards wages, Increases or decreases in average weekly wages, by industries, in 1897 as compared With 1872 and 1881, Industries in which computed average weekly wages show a decline, Industries in Which computed average weekly wages show an increase. 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.