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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823176603321

Autore

Glickman Lawrence B.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1997

ISBN

1-5017-0221-1

1-5017-0222-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

331.2973

Soggetti

Wages - United States - History

Cost and standard of living - United States - History

Working class - United States - History

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

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.