A Living Wage
Subtitle: its ethical and economic aspects
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
Published: 1906
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface vii; title: Introduction xi; title: SECTION I; title: Introductory and Historical; title: Chapter; title: I Economic and Legal Presumptions Against a Living Wage 3; title: II Some Authorities in Favor of an Ethical Standard for Fixing Wages 23; title: SECTION II; title: The Basis, Nature, and Content of the Right to a Living Wage; title: III The Basis and Justification of Rights 43; title: IV The Right to Subsistence and the Right to a Decent Livelihood 67; title: V The Right to a Personal Living Wage 81; title: VI The Right to a Family Living Wage 110; title: VII A Concrete Estimate of a Living Wage 123; title: SECTION III; title: Economic Facts by Which the Right is Conditioned; title: VII The Underpaid Laborers of America: their Number and Prospects 153; title: IX Our Industrial Resources and a Living Wage for All 178; title: X The Forces that Regulate Price 190; title: XI Rent 199; title: XII Profits 207; title: XIII Interest 211; title: XIV Wages 222; title: SECTION IV; title: The Obligations Corresponding to the Right; title: XV The Obligation of the Employer 237; title: XVI The Obligation of the Loan-Capitalist, the Landowner, the Consumer, and the Man of Wealth 262; title: XVII The Obligation of the Laborer 280; title: XVIII The Obligation of the State 297; title: XIX Summary and Conclusion 324; title: Works of Reference 333; title: Index 341