A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society /

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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 hau...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glickman, Lawrence B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
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.
Coût et niveau de la vie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
Cost and standard of living
Wages
Working class
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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