Outline of the weekly budget for a family of five on the wages of a shop assistant. The information was extracted from the 'Daily Herald' (a newspaper owned by the Trades Union Congress), 23 January 1920.

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).