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The '''living wage''' entails the idea that no wage-earning laborer should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above [[poverty level]]. It was an operating principle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's [[New Deal]]. Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the [[minimum wage]] lives on as a vestige of it. | The '''living wage''' entails the idea that no wage-earning laborer should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above [[poverty level]]. It was an operating principle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's [[New Deal]]. Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the [[minimum wage]] lives on as a vestige of it. | ||
| − | {{ | + | {{quotation|In urging the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] said, "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of a decent living."<ref>[http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act]</ref>}} |
| − | In urging the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] said, "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of a decent living." | + | |
| − | <ref>[http:// | + | ==History== |
| + | 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'' | ||
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| + | * [https://books.google.com/books?id=X7XjcHG3C2wC A Living Wage], By John A. Ryan | ||
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Revision as of 02:11, September 1, 2015
The living wage entails the idea that no wage-earning laborer should ever be paid lower wages than those that would keep him and his family above poverty level. It was an operating principle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Although most aspects of the living-wage program were repealed in 1964, the minimum wage lives on as a vestige of it.
In urging the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of a decent living."[1]
History
The concept of a living wage is a product of the Social gospel.[2] The reverend John A. Ryan, after reading Pope Leo XIII's encyclical 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
References
- ↑ Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
- ↑ (2015) Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 127. ISBN 978-0765601513.
External Links
- A Living Wage, By John A. Ryan