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LoC No.: 12024605
Title: Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap
Note: Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Contents: The point at issue -- Obligations of the consuming class -- What is a just employer? -- Theory of industrial organization -- Industrial conditions: wages -- Industrial conditions: health -- Industrial conditions: morals -- What should the individual consumer do?
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Summary: "Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap" by J. Elliot Ross is a socio-economic treatise written in the early 20th century. This work addresses the ethical implications of consumer choices in relation to labor conditions, particularly focusing on the responsibilities of consumers toward fair wages for workers. The book explores the interconnectedness of the consuming class and wage-earners, raising critical questions about economic justice and moral obligation. At the start of the text, Ross introduces a poignant comparison between a child purchasing a prize-bag and the young women laboring under poor conditions to produce these items. He uses this analogy to frame the broader issues of exploitation in industry, suggesting that consumers who seek cheap prices are, perhaps unknowingly, complicit in sustaining unjust labor practices. The opening portion not only sets the stage for exploring the obligations consumers have toward the wage-earners but also establishes a critical perspective on the nature of economic responsibilities in modern society. Ross argues that if employers fail to uphold their duties to laborers, the consuming class must consider their own ethical obligations regarding fair labor practices and wages. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Ross, J. Elliot (John Elliot), 1884-1946
EBook No.: 43040
Published: Jun 26, 2013
Downloads: 58
Language: English
Subject: Wages -- United States
Subject: Wages
Subject: Consumers -- United States
LoCC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 12024605
Title: Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap
Note: Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Contents: The point at issue -- Obligations of the consuming class -- What is a just employer? -- Theory of industrial organization -- Industrial conditions: wages -- Industrial conditions: health -- Industrial conditions: morals -- What should the individual consumer do?
Credits:
Produced by Caitlin Hesser, Odessa Paige Turner and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This book was produced from scanned images of public
domain material from the Google Print project.)
Summary: "Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap" by J. Elliot Ross is a socio-economic treatise written in the early 20th century. This work addresses the ethical implications of consumer choices in relation to labor conditions, particularly focusing on the responsibilities of consumers toward fair wages for workers. The book explores the interconnectedness of the consuming class and wage-earners, raising critical questions about economic justice and moral obligation. At the start of the text, Ross introduces a poignant comparison between a child purchasing a prize-bag and the young women laboring under poor conditions to produce these items. He uses this analogy to frame the broader issues of exploitation in industry, suggesting that consumers who seek cheap prices are, perhaps unknowingly, complicit in sustaining unjust labor practices. The opening portion not only sets the stage for exploring the obligations consumers have toward the wage-earners but also establishes a critical perspective on the nature of economic responsibilities in modern society. Ross argues that if employers fail to uphold their duties to laborers, the consuming class must consider their own ethical obligations regarding fair labor practices and wages. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Ross, J. Elliot (John Elliot), 1884-1946
EBook No.: 43040
Published: Jun 26, 2013
Downloads: 58
Language: English
Subject: Wages -- United States
Subject: Wages
Subject: Consumers -- United States
LoCC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.