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LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN A Living Wage A Living Wage AMERICAN WORKERS AND THE MAKING OF CONSUMER SOCIETY Lawrence B. Glickman Cornell University Press Ithaca & London Copyright e 1997 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations In a review. this book. or parts thereof. must not be reproduced In any form without permission In writing from the publisher. For Information. address Cornell University Press. Sage House. 512 East State Street. Ithaca. New York 14850. First published 1997 by Cornell University Press First printing. Cornell Paperbacks. 1999 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible In the pUblishing of Its books. Such materials Include vegetable-based. low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled. totally chlOrine-free. or partly composed of nonwood fibers. Books that bear the logo of the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) use paper taken from forests that have been Inspected and certified as meeting the highest standards for environmental and social responsibility. For further Information. visit our webSite at PrInted In www.comellpress.cornell.edu. the United States of America Ubrary of Congress QltalDglng·/n·PubUcatton Data GUcIanan. Lawrence B. . 1963- A Uvtng _ge: American workers and the making of consumer society I Lawrence B. GUckman. p. cm. Includes Index. ISBN 0·8014·3357·6 (cloth: a1k. paperl ISBN 0-8014-8614-9 (pbk: I. a1k. paper) Wages-United States-History. United States-History. 2. Cost and standard of Uvtng 3. Working Class-United States-History. 4. Consumptlon (Economlcsl-5ociaJ aspects-United States-History. HD6983.G475 331.2·97�c21 1997 Cloth printing ill 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Paperback printing ill 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 97-19264 For my parents, Sandra and Ronald Glickman Contents Part I lUustrattons Ix Preface xi Introduction: Rethinking Wage Labor 1 ProID Wage Slavery to the LiftDgWage 9 Part D PartlD Chapter 1. That Curse of Modem Civilization 17 Chapter 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women 35 The Social BeonoID7 55 Chapter 3. Defining the Living Wage 61 Chapter 4. Inventing the American Standard of Living 78 Workers of the World. eo_aIDe 93 Chapter 5. Merchants of Time 99 Chapter 6. Producers as Consumers 1 08 vU vIII Part IV Contents The Li.ua,Wage iD the Twentieth Century 129 Chapter 7. Subsistence or Consumption? 133 Chapter 8. The Living Wage Incorporated 147 Coda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption 157 Abbrevtattons Used tn the Notes 163 Notes 165 Index 215 nlustrations Figure 1. "Don't Be a Wage Slave."lntemational Socialist Review ( 1 91 1 ) 28 Figure 2. Joseph Keppler. "The Overcrowded Raft." Puck (191 3) 4 1 Figures 3 -7. Joseph Manasian. Photo-Engravers' Union No. 1. "This Is the Way It Happens." Union Label Advocate ( 1 920) 115. 1 1 7. 1 18. 1 20. 1 22 Figure 8. J. N. Darling. 'The Living Wage Puzzle." Collier's (1922) 145 ix
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