<p>2021 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. &nbsp;Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.&nbsp;This report was originally published in the <em>Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 604.&nbsp;</em>Written during the year of the Great Depression, this report attempted to present a picture of American wages from early colonial times to 1929.&nbsp;In general, the policy was to select representative occupations in representative industries, and present for such occupations as continuous a record as possible of wages and hours of labor.&nbsp;In is in summary form a record of the holdings of the <em>U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</em>.</p>