From Library Journal
Glickman (history, Univ. of South Carolina) analyzes the change in labor-movement ideology from aspiring to make workers self-employed artisans to accepting their status as wage earners. Nevertheless, labor unions disdained "wage slavery" and fought for a "living wage" that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. In doing so, Glickman argues that working-class Americans played an important role in the transformation of America from a producer-driven to a consumer-oriented society. He also disputes earlier influential interpretations of American labor ideology as being "exceptional" compared with European ideology, a view found particularly in the writings of John R. Commons and Selig Perlman. Recommended for labor collections of academic libraries.?Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
