Summary The paper presents weekly earnings data for the British engineering industry over 1914–68 and comparable unemployment statistics. Additional information is provided to allow calculation of standard hourly and weekly earnings. The series cover the two key bargaining groups in the engineering industry, fitters and labourers, and 28 separate labour market areas across the whole geographical space of Great Britain. The main purpose of the paper is to provide an important additional source of earnings data which can be used for a variety of purposes, but a number of analyses of a particular subject, the regional earnings structure, is also undertaken.

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