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A Living Wage: its ethical and economic aspects

CONTENTS Preface vii Introduction xi SECTION I Introductory and Historical Chapter I Economic and Legal Presumptions Against a Living Wage 3 II Some Authorities in Favor of an Ethical Standard for Fixing Wages 23 SECTION II The Basis, Nature, and Content of the Right to a Living Wage III The Basis and Justification of Rights 43 IV The Right to Subsistence and the Right to a Decent Livelihood 67 V The Right to a Personal Living Wage 81 VI The Right to a Family Living Wage 110 VII A Concrete Estimate of a Living Wage 123 SECTION III Economic Facts by Which the Right is Conditioned VII The Underpaid Laborers of America: their Number and Prospects 153 IX Our Industrial Resources and a Living Wage for All 178 X The Forces that Regulate Price 190 XI Rent 199 XII Profits 207 XIII Interest 211 XIV Wages 222 SECTION IV The Obligations Corresponding to the Right XV The Obligation of the Employer 237 XVI The Obligation of the Loan-Capitalist, the Landowner, the Consumer, and the Man of Wealth 262 XVII The Obligation of the Laborer 280 XVIII The Obligation of the State 297 XIX Summary and Conclusion 324 Works of Reference 333 Index 341 Digitized by Google. · Partly reprinted from the "Catholic

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