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



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Autore: Glickman Lawrence B. Visualizza persona
Titolo: A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society / / Lawrence B. Glickman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 1999
©1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 331.2973
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A living wage  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-0221-1
1-5017-0222-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797758103321
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