Re: [Pen-l] American Workers and Consumer Society

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Lawrence B. Glickman. A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of
> Consumer Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xvi + 220 pp.
> $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-3357-3.

> ... John Mitchell, for example, defined such a wage in
> 1898 as sufficient for a worker "to purchase a comfortable house of at least
> six rooms," which contained a bathroom, good sanitary plumbing, parlor,
> dining room, kitchen, sleeping rooms, carpets, pictures, books, and
> furniture (pp. 82-3). Working-class advocates expected the standard to rise
> over time. ...

Currently, as I understand it, living wage advocates argue that the
minimum wage should be high enough that its recipient can be at least
the level of the official poverty level.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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