No family need be reduced to suffering on 36s.

a week.

But unfortunately the differences of income among the working-classes are proportionately nearly as great as among the well-to-do classes.

It is not merely the difference between the wages of skilled and unskilled labour; the 50s.
per week of the high-class engineer, or typographer, and the 1s.2d.

per diem of the sandwich-man, or the difference between the wages of men and women workers.