Note 196 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
The following tabulation is drawn from the statistics of Dr. Young, Labor in Europe and America, to illustrate the differences of wages. Personal inquiries among men from all parts of Northern Europe confirm in a general way these figures reported from Europe. The European rates are reduced to gold values, while those for the United States are in paper money values, and should be discounted 10% or 12% to put them on a par with the other rates.
Summer Winter
Experienced agric. laborers, per day With Board Without Board With Board Without Board
Sweden, 1873 $ .66 $ $.46 $
Norway, 1873 .28-.43 .42-.55 .21-.31 .55
Denmark, 1872 .54 .80 .40 .60
U.S. (Western), 1870 1.34 1.84 .97 1.40
Minnesota, 1870 1.60 2.50 1.17 1.67
U.S. (Western), 1874 1.15 1.58 .93 1.35
Minnesota, 1874 1.00 1.50 .75 1.25