Abstract
Labor historians have generally been more concerned with the experience of manual workers than with salaried employees.The evolution of salaried incomes also remains an underresearched topic in the long-running debate about living standards in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. The experience of white workers of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th and 18th century in many respects prefigured that of clerks working for the British East India Company between about 1760 and 1830. The Dutch East India Company never entirely shifted to the age-related salary structure as the British East India Company did about 1800. In the VOC, perquisites continued to form an important part of the total earnings of many employees in the white collar workforce, in particular of bookkeepers and cashiers. The size of these sorts of earnings was much less related to age or experience than formally fixed salaries. Keywords:Britain; British East India Company; Dutch East India Company; Industrial Revolution; VOC; White Collar Workers
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