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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Glickman, Lawrence B., 1963- Living wage. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605357831 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence B Glickman |
| ISBN: | 0801433576 9780801433573 |
| OCLC Number: | 36767632 |
| Description: | xvi, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Lawrence B. Glickman. |
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