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
Summary
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
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Includes index
In English
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