By 1920, nominal weekly wages for British manual workers had soared 178 percent with respect to their prewar levels— a high of £3.70 compared to £1.26 in 1910 (Scholliers and Zamagni 1995, table A.23, 261). To give a sense of these gains, consider that for an entire century before the war, the incremental increase of average British weekly earnings from one year to the next never exceeded more than £0.10.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 359