Medieval workers struggle as wages fail to keep up with inflation.
The article examines how wages and prices changed in England and the Low Countries from 1300 to 1500. It questions the idea that real wages rose due to a decrease in population after the Black Death. The study shows that while wages did increase for some workers after the Black Death, they did not always keep up with rising prices. In England, wages did not return to pre-Plague levels until the 1360s.