The cost of living in America
Subtitle: a political history of economic statistics, 1880-2000
By: Thomas A. Stapleford.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780521895019; 9780521719247
Subjects: Cost and standard of living -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Statistics and labor reform, 1880-1930: centralization and its discontents. Before there were indexes: the "Labor Question" and labor statistics, 1880-1910 ; The cost of living in peace and war: statistics and economic management, 1910-1918 ; Searching for normalcy: cost-of-living statistics and industrial relations in the 1920s; title: Pt. II. Rationalizing the democratic political order, 1930-1960: cost-of-living statistics in the heart of the New Deal. The nature of revolution: the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the New Deal ; Tracking an elusive home-front "enemy": price indexes and wage adjustment ; Statistics from the bottom up: union research on the cost of living ; Bounded conflict: collective bargaining and the Consumer Price Index in the Cold War; title: Pt. III. The CPI and the federal government, 1960-2000: a "welfare" index for the welfare state. Accounting for growth: macroeconomic analysis and the transformation of price index theory ; From workers to the welfare state: the Consumer Price Index and the rise of indexation; title: Epilogue: governance and economic statistics.