Excerpt from Second Annual Report on Changes in Wages and Hours of Labour in the United Kingdom, 1894: With Preliminary Figures for 1895 It will be remembered that in the last Report certain groups of industries were dealt with on a different plan from the rest, owing either to peculiarities in their organisation or to want of full data. The groups of industries which were fully dealt with were the building trades, engineering, metal and shipbuilding trades. 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.