A Living Wage: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal

by Lawrence B. Glickman

Book Overview

The fight for a living wage has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801433576
• ISBN13: 9780801433573
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher