03050nam 2200649 450 991046036320332120200520144314.01-5017-0221-11-5017-0222-X10.7591/9781501702228(CKB)3710000000506414(EBL)3426012(MiAaPQ)EBC3426012(DE-B1597)480111(OCoLC)1013964525(OCoLC)951648810(DE-B1597)9781501702228(OCoLC)919104785(MdBmJHUP)muse78572(Au-PeEL)EBL3426012(CaPaEBR)ebr11091020(EXLCZ)99371000000050641420150907h19991997 uy 0engur|||||||nn|nrdacontentrdamediardacarrierA living wage American workers and the making of consumer society /Lawrence B. GlickmanIthaca, New York ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,1999.©19971 online resource (240 p.)Includes index.0-8014-3357-6 0-8014-8614-9 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 --IndexThe 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.WagesUnited StatesHistoryCost and standard of livingUnited StatesHistoryWorking classUnited StatesHistoryConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsUnited StatesHistoryConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsElectronic books.WagesHistory.Cost and standard of livingHistory.Working classHistory.Consumption (Economics)Social aspectsHistory.Consumption (Economics)Social aspects.331.2973Glickman Lawrence B.1046325MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460363203321A living wage2473149UNINA