Title A living wage : American workers and the making of consumer society / Lawrence B. Glickman

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-213) and index Notes 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 Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Wages -- United States -- History Cost and standard of living -- United States -- History Working class -- United States -- History Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. HISTORY -- United States -- General. Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects Cost and standard of living Wages Working class Arbeiter Lohn Konsumgesellschaft Lohnpolitik Lohnarbeit Arbeidersbeweging. Salarissen. Consumptiemaatschappij. labour movement. trade unionism. history. Wages -- United States -- History. Cost and standard of living -- United States -- History. Working class -- United States -- History. Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Geschichte 1870-1997. mouvement ouvrier. syndicalisme. histoire. movimiento obrero. sindicalismo. historia. United States USA USA. Etats-Unis. Estados Unidos. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021699375 ISBN 9781501702211 1501702211 9781501702228 150170222X

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