📚 Wages

The price of labour: wage funds, minimum-wage fights and the statistics that claim to settle them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject wages in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Value, price and profit, addressed to workingmen	Karl Marx	1898	52
	Lohnarbeit und Kapital	Karl Marx	1902	47
	A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil	Jane Addams	1912	21
	Work, wages, and profits	Henry Laurence Gantt	1910	19
	AAT NVQ (Aat Textbooks)	Association of Accounting Technicians	1996	19
	Motion and time study	Benjamin W. Niebel	1955	17
	Código del trabajo (1978)	Ecuador	1965	16
	Wages	Maurice Herbert Dobb	1928	12
	Payroll accounting	Bernard J. Bieg	1989	12
	Profit sharing between employer and employee	Nicholas Paine Gilman	1889	11
	Making Both Ends Meet	Sue Ainslie Clark	1911	10
	Human capital	Gary Stanley Becker	1964	10
	Time-span handbook	Elliott Jaques	1964	10
	Secrets of Six-Figure Women	Barbara Stanny	2002	10
	Compensation management	Richard I. Henderson	1976	9
	Wage and hour manual for California employers	Simmons, Richard J.	1979	9
	[A refutation of] the wage-fund theory, 1866	Francis Davy Longe	1866	8
	Prices and wages in England from the twelfth to the nineteenth century	Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge Baron	1939	8
	Wages and capital	F. W. Taussig	1896	7
	A living wage	John Augustine Ryan	1906	7
	Salary administration	Gordon McBeath	1964	7
	Think and act	Virginia Penny	1971	7
	The National Minimum Wage	Great Britain. Low Pay Commission.	2000	7
	The bargain theory of wages	John Davidson	1898	6
	Die ursachen der ungleichen entlohnung von männer- und frauenarbeit	Alice Salomon	1906	6
	Wage and salary administration	David W. Belcher	1955	6
	Some aspects of wage theory and policy	Sidney Weintraub	1963	6
	Monopsony in Motion	Alan Manning	2003	6
	Wages and Wants of Science Work	Richard A. Proctor	2012	6
	Political economy	Edward Altingdean	1876	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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