Introduction: Rethinking Wage Labor

pt. I. From Wage Slavery to the Living Wage. Ch. 1. That Curse of Modern Civilization. Ch. 2. Idle Men and Fallen Women

pt. II. The Social Economy. Ch. 3. Defining the Living Wage. Ch. 4. Inventing the American Standard of Living

pt. III. Workers of the World, Consume. Ch. 5. Merchants of Time. Ch. 6. Producers as Consumers

pt. IV. The Living Wage in the Twentieth Century. Ch. 7. Subsistence or Consumption? Ch. 8. The Living Wage Incorporated

Coda: Interpreting the Living Wage and Consumption.