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Excerpt from The Census of Industrial Employment, Wages, and Social Condition, in Philadelphia, in 1870
As to the wages paid adult men in the year of the census, it was not practicable to separate either the details or the aggregate from the general account of wages. Formerly men were paid twice as much as women now the proportion is as three to two, probably. Wages fell somewhat heavily in 1868 and 1869, from the high figures of the war, but since 1869 they have advanced rather than receded further. Many classes are paid $21 per week or per day; many other classes more than this, and skilled persons at piece work earn even $5 and $6 per day. Mere laborers of course decline to $12, $10, and $9 per week, which last is the lowest rate paid to any laborers assuming to do a man's work. All skilled labor is really high, showing that the door is open to a scale of wages affording abundant means of living, to all who have the capacity to work with skill at all.
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