A Living Wage
Subtitle: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801486142
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Social history; Work & labour; United States - 20th Century; History: World; History; Politics / Current Events; USA; Consumer Behavior - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Americas (North Central South West Indies)
First sentence: Between the Civil War and the 1930s, working-class attitudes toward wage labor shifted from "wage slavery" to the "living wage."