Introduction : the living wage -- Sustainability : subsistence, necessities, and unions -- Capability : work and wages, virtue and skill -- Externality, community and wages -- Lessons from the history of economic thought

For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill...