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Weekly wages in Vienna and surroundings (in Krone)

Source: Kautsky, Benedikt: Löhne und Gehälter, in: Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, Band 169, München/Leipzig 1925, 108

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    The losers under inflation: huge falls in employee real wages

    Blue- and white-collar workers suffered particularly under devaluation. The de facto disappearance of trade union lobbying as a result of the policy of ‘internal peace’ led, as with civil servants, to huge falls in real wages. It was only in 1917 that the condition of wage earners began to improve again.