> 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. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
