Author: WALKER, Francis A.
Title: The Wages Question, a treatise on wages and the wages class.
Description: London, Macmillan 1876. Octavo publisher's cloth; iv,428pp. Title browned, one margin torn by careless opening, quite a good copy. ¶ First English edition apparently using the American sheets with a cancel title (Macmillans bibliographical catalogue lists it for 1877). Walker made his reputation as both statistitian and theoretician and this is his first important treatise; an attack on the wages-fund theory, arguing that wages are paid from the product of labour and not from accumulated capital.

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