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Dock labourer: weekly budget, 1914 & 1920

Outline of the weekly budget for the family of L. Brammall of Birkenhead, dock labourer. It compares prices in 1914 and 1920 (before and shortly after the First World War).

This item is one of a series of documents on the contemporary cost of living collected by the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland as part of their evidence for the 1920 Court of Inquiry into Wages, Rates and Conditions of Men Engaged in Dock and Waterside Labour (also known as the Shaw Inquiry).

Weekly budget for L. Brammall of Birkenhead and his family in 1914 and 1920
Weekly budget for L. Brammall of Birkenhead and his family in 1914 and 1920