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A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society /
"A Living Wage," the rallying cry of union activists, is a concept with a revealing history, here documented by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibil...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking Wage Labor
- pt. I. From Wage Slavery to the Living Wage. Ch. 1. That Curse of Modern Civilization. Ch. 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women
- pt. II. The Social Economy. Ch. 3. Defining the Living Wage. Ch. 4. Inventing the American Standard of Living
- pt. III. Workers of the World, Consume. Ch. 5. Merchants of Time. Ch. 6. Producers as Consumers
- pt. IV. The Living Wage in the Twentieth Century. Ch. 7. Subsistence or Consumption? Ch. 8. The Living Wage Incorporated
- Coda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption.