13) What is the explanation for why real wages did not increase dramatically until after 1860? Use the flow diagram presented in the textbook. What is the argument that politics helped to increase the real wages of labor? 400 Real wages - Labour productivity 1847 Ten Hours Act (limits work Index (1760 = 100) 300 hours for women & children) 1928 Universal 1844 Factory Act (children suffrage work only 6.5 hours day) 200 1781 Watt's steam engine 100 1918 Voting rights 1764 1833 Factory Act (no child for all males Hargreaves' spinning jenny labour under 9 years) 0 1760 1810 1860 1910 Vnar