Transcriber's Note:
Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has beenrationalised.
Wider tables have been split into two.
BRITISH INCOMES IN 1908-9
| RICH 1,400,000 persons £634,000,000 | COMFORTABLE 4,100,000 persons £275,000,000 |
| POOR 39,000,000 persons £935,000,000 | |
| The Aggregate Income of the 44,600,000 people of the United Kingdom in 1908-9 was approximately £1,844,000,000. 1,400,000 persons took £634,000,000; 4,100,000 persons took £275,000,000; 39,000,000 persons took £935,000,000. (See Chapters 2 and 3.) | |
(1910)
BY
L. G. CHIOZZA MONEY, M.P.
ELEVENTH EDITION
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TO MY WIFE
THE present edition of "Riches and Poverty" revisesmy estimates of the distribution of the wealth of theUnited Kingdom down to the year 1908. The effect ofthe revision is to show that in the five years that haveelapsed since this work was first published, the distributionof wealth has grown even more unequal. The comparativestationariness of money wages of late years is a factupon which the labourers themselves, and not less thenation of which they form by far the greater part, are tobe commiserated. I write at a time when a great dealof discontent is becoming evident amongst large massesof the population; it may be well for those, and theyare many, who have written in condemnation of thatdiscontent, to ponder the following pages, and in particularto compare the profits recorded by the InlandRevenue Commissioners with the evidence as to wagescollected by the Labour Department of the Board ofTrade.
My own view of the subject is, that the massing ofcapital in large units has so considerably strengthened thehand of capital in its dealings with l