LEADER 03016nam 2200637 450 001 9910797758103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0221-1 010 $a1-5017-0222-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501702228 035 $a(CKB)3710000000506414 035 $a(EBL)3426012 035 $a(DE-B1597)480111 035 $a(OCoLC)1013964525 035 $a(OCoLC)951648810 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501702228 035 $a(OCoLC)919104785 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3426012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11091020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3426012 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000506414 100 $a20150907h19991997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA living wage $eAmerican workers and the making of consumer society /$fLawrence B. Glickman 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-3357-6 311 $a0-8014-8614-9 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Rethinking Wage Labor --$tPart I. From Wage Slavery to the Living Wage --$tChapter 1. That Curse of Modem Civilization --$tChapter 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women --$tPart II. The Social Economy --$tChapter 3 . Defining the Living Wage --$tChapter 4. Inventing the American Standard of Living --$tPart III. Workers of the World, Consume --$tChapter 5. Merchants of Time --$tChapter 6. Producers as Consumers --$tPart IV. The Living, Wage in the Twentieth Century --$tChapter 7. Subsistence or Consumption? --$tChapter 8. The Living Wage Incorporated --$tCoda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption --$tAbbreviations Used tn the Notes --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aWages$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCost and standard of living$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWages$xHistory. 615 0$aCost and standard of living$xHistory. 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory. 615 0$aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aConsumption (Economics)$xSocial aspects. 676 $a331.2973 700 $aGlickman$b Lawrence B.$01172166 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797758103321 996 $aA living wage$93852109 997 $aUNINA