The Political Economy of a Living Wage Progressives, the New Deal, and Social Justice /

• Main Author: Stabile, Donald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History
• Subjects: Political economy.; Economic policy.; Economic history.; Economics.; Economic History.; Economic Policy.; Political Economy.

This book tells the story behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the phrase "living wage" in a variety of speeches, letters, and statements, and examines the degree to which programs of the New Deal reflected the ideas of a living wage movement that existed in the US for almost th...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: The Economics of a Living Wage
• 2 The Living Wage from World War I through the Great Depression
• 3 Planning a Living Wage: The NIRA
• 4 A Useful and Remunerative Job: The National Labor Relations Act
• 5 Social Security: Protection from Old Age and Unemployment
• 6 The Right to Earn Enough: The Fair Labor Standards Act
• 7 Collective Bargaining, Social Insurance and the Minimum Wage: A Program for a Living Wage.