A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society / Lawrence B. Glickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glickman, Lawrence B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wages--United States--History.

Wages.

Cost and standard of living--United States--History.

Cost and standard of living.

Working class--United States--History.

Working class.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States--History.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The author of this text documents the history of the labour movement's demand for "a living wage". The movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening political possibilities and creating contradictions which haunt them today.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Rethinking Wage Labor

Part I. From Wage Slavery to the Living Wage

Chapter 1. That Curse of Modem Civilization

Chapter 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women

Part II. The Social Economy

Chapter 3 . Defining the Living Wage

Chapter 4. Inventing the American Standard of Living

Part III. Workers of the World, Consume

Chapter 5. Merchants of Time

Chapter 6. Producers as Consumers

Part IV. The Living, Wage in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 7. Subsistence or Consumption?

Chapter 8. The Living Wage Incorporated

Coda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption

Abbreviations Used tn the Notes

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 7, 2015).

ISBN:

9781501702211

1501702211

9781501702228

150170222X

OCLC:

1013964525