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1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-213) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 possibilities for organized workers. At the same time, however, they created contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today. Nineteenth-century workers saw wages as dangerous, Glickman reveals, because workers hoped to become self-employed artisans rather than permanent employees. |
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In the decades after the Civil War, organized workers began to view wage labor differently. Redefining working-class identity in consumerist terms, unions demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. Glickman brings the story of the living wage up to the present, clearly demonstrating how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wages -- United States -- History.
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Wages. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Cost and standard of living -- United States -- History.
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Cost and standard of living. |
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Working class -- United States -- History.
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Working class. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Glickman, Lawrence B., 1963- Living wage. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997 0801433576 (DLC) 97019264 (OCoLC)36767632 |
| ISBN |
9781501702228 (electronic book) |
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150170222X (electronic book) |
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0801433576 |
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9780801433573 |
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0801486149 |
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