| − | The concept of a living wage is a product of the [[Social gospel]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|last1=Lippy|first1=Charles|title=Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0765601513|pages=127}}</ref> The reverend John A. Ryan, after reading [[Pope Leo XIII]]'s encyclical [[Social Justice|Rerum Novarum]], was so moved by it that he wrote his Ph.D dissertation about minimum wage, and it was published in 1906 as ''The Living Wage'' | + | The concept of a living wage is a product of the [[Social gospel]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|last1=Lippy|first1=Charles|title=Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0765601513|pages=127}}</ref> The reverend [[John A. Ryan]], after reading [[Pope Leo XIII]]'s encyclical [[Social Justice|Rerum Novarum]], was so moved by it that he wrote his Ph.D dissertation about minimum wage, and it was published in 1906 as ''The Living Wage''. |