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Glickman, Lawrence B.

A Living Wage

American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Publication Date:
July 2015
Copyright year:
1997
ISBN
978-1-5017-0222-8
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Frontmatter

Pages i-vi

Contents

Pages vii-viii

Illustrations

Pages ix-x

Preface

Pages xi-xviii

Introduction: Rethinking Wage Labor

Pages 1-8

Part I. From Wage Slavery to the Living Wage

Chapter 1. That Curse of Modem Civilization

Pages 9-34

Chapter 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women

Pages 35-54

Part II. The Social Economy

Chapter 3 . Defining the Living Wage

Pages 55-77

Chapter 4. Inventing the American Standard o f Living

Pages 78-92

Part III. Workers of the World, Consume

Chapter 5. Merchants of Time

Pages 93-107

Chapter 6. Producers as Consumers

Pages 108-128

Part IV. The Living, Wage in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 7. Subsistence or Consumption?

Pages 129-146

Chapter 8. The Living Wage Incorporated

Pages 147-156

Coda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption

Pages 157-162

Abbreviations Used tn the Notes

Pages 163-164

Notes

Pages 165-214

Index

Pages 215-220

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