{"id":1229173,"name":"Wages relative to price of energy","unit":"","description":"Labourer's daily wage relative to the price of 1 million British Thermal Units (BTUs), early 1700s","createdAt":"2026-05-12T11:24:49.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-12T11:24:49.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1700-1700","datasetId":7852,"columnOrder":0,"shortName":"wages_relative_to_price_of_energy","catalogPath":"grapher/core_econ/2018-09-15/figure_2_10/figure_2_10#wages_relative_to_price_of_energy","type":"float","datasetName":"Figure 2.10","datasetVersion":"2018-09-15","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{},"schemaVersion":1,"presentation":{},"source":{"id":31581,"name":"Allen, R. C. (2009)","dataPublishedBy":"Allen, R. C. (2009), 'The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, New Approaches to Economic and Social History', Cambridge University Press.","dataPublisherSource":"","link":"","retrievedDate":"","additionalInfo":"The bar chart shows the price of labour relative to the price of energy — specifically, the wages of building labourers divided by the price of 1 million BTU (British Thermal Units, a unit of energy equivalent to slightly more than 1,000 joules).\n\nData received directly from author via Kevin O'Rourke."},"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1700}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":36802,"name":"Amsterdam","code":null},{"id":38029,"name":"Beijing","code":null},{"id":34609,"name":"London","code":null},{"id":38214,"name":"Newcastle, \nEngland","code":null},{"id":36686,"name":"Paris","code":null},{"id":38215,"name":"Strasbourg, \nFrance","code":null}]}},"origins":[]}