Download or read book The Itching Palm written by William Rufus Scott and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Itching Palm written by William Rufus Scott and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study and indictment of the habit of tipping in America, first published in 1916. Today more relevant than ever.
Download or read book The Itching Palm written by William Scott and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A moral disease is devastating the land, according to William R. Scott, the author of a new book entitled 'The Itching Palm.' The disease is 'tipping' - the modern form of flunkyism - and it is sapping the vitality of our democracy.. If we love democracy, Mr. Scott says, we must destroy flunkyism; the two ideas cannot live together except in a false peace. The time is ripe, he urges, for a new crusade. What he wants to see is a national anti-tipping organization, with effective state auxiliaries. 'Tipping,' he tells us, 'would be vanquished in an astonishingly short time with the same organization behind this movement that has been given to the anti-saloon movement, or the suffrage movement.' "Mr. Scott's book is, so far as we know, the only one ever devoted entirely to the subject of tipping. It contains much that is amusing and much that is true. There are, it seems, in the United States along more than 5,000,000 persons who derive their income, in whole or in part, from tips….The practice of tipping is bad for the employee in that it makes him servile. It is equally bad for the employer in that it encourages him to pay inadequate wages. "Tipping, Mr. Scott continues, is inseparable from the grafting spirit. It fosters class distinction. It results in 'the loss of that fineness of self-respect without which men and women are only so much clay - worthless dregs in the crucible of democracy.'" -Current Opinion, Volume 62, 1917 "Considering the fact that 10 per cent of our industrial population are numbered among the 'flunkies,' the author makes a strong argument for the abolition of tipping, either by legislation or public opinion." -Fourth Estate, January 6, 1917 "William R. Scott, in his 1916 polemic 'The Itching Palm,' described the tip as the price that 'one American is willing to pay to induce another American to acknowledge inferiority.' The anti-tipping campaigns were so effective that six states actually banned the practice. The opponents of tipping got some important things right. They saw that tipping was an aberration in a freemarket economy, and that tips had a lot in common with gifts. The also understood that economics alone could not explain why customers were willing to tip." -The New Yorker, September 5, 2005
Download or read book ITCHING PALM A STUDY OF THE HA written by William Rufus 1886 Scott and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Tipping written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the history of tipping can be traced to the Middle Ages, the practice did not become widespread until the late 19th century. Initially, Americans reviled the custom, branding it un-American and undemocratic. The opposition gradually faded and tipping became an American institution. From its beginnings in Europe to its development as a quintessentially American trait, this work provides a social history of tipping customs and how the United States became a nation of tippers.
Download or read book The Itching Palm written by William R. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America "Oliver Cromwell struck a mortal blow at the universal heart of Flunkyism," wrote Carlyle of the execution of Charles I. Yet, Flunkyism is not dead! In the United States alone more than 5,000,000 persons derive their incomes, in whole or in part, from "tips," or gratuities. They have the moral malady denominated The Itching Palm. Tipping is the modern form of Flunkyism. Flunkyism may be defined as a willingness to be servile for a consideration. It is democracy's deadly foe. The two ideas cannot live together except in a false peace. The tendency always is for one to sap the vitality of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Dishing It Out written by Dorothy Cobble and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back when SOS or Adam and Eve on a raft were things to order if you were hungry but a little short on time and money, nearly one-fourth of all waitresses belonged to unions. By the time their movement peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, the women had developed a distinctive form of working-class feminism, simultaneously pushing for equal rights and pay and affirming their need for special protections. Dorothy Sue Cobble shows how sexual and racial segregation persisted in wait work, but she rejects the idea that this was caused by employers' actions or the exclusionary policies of male trade unionists. Dishing It Out contends that the success of waitress unionism was due to several factors: waitresses, for the most part, had nontraditional family backgrounds, and most were primary wage-earners. Their close-knit occupational community and sex-separate union encouraged female assertiveness and a decidedly unromantic view of men and marriage. Cobble skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. The result is a book that will expand our understanding of feminism and unionism by including the gender conscious perspectives of working women.
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Download or read book Silent but Deadly written by Kirsten Bell and published by Caw Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fabulous read' - Gillian Tett, author of Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life 'Learned but witty' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour, Kirsten Bell, an anthropologist who has lived in five countries on four continents—and learned about cultural gaffes by constantly committing them—places our everyday behaviours under the microscope. Boldly going where no anthropologist has gone before, no topic is too small or insignificant for Bell’s attention, whether it’s washing machines in kitchens, buying rounds at the pub, toilet paper, or searing. The kind of book Jared Diamond might write if he was more concerned with the meanings of bodily emissions than the collapse of civilizations, Silent but Deadly deciphers the cultural patterns that underlie our everyday quirks, foibles, and habits.
Download or read book The Open Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Seaway to the Future written by Alexander Missal and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal’s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era’s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management featuring innovations in technology, work, health, and consumption. For their middle-class audience in the United States, the writers depicted a foreign yet familiar place, a showcase for the future—images reinforced in the exhibits of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition that celebrated the Canal’s completion. Through these depictions, the building of the Panama Canal became a powerful symbol in a broader search for order as Americans looked to the modern age with both anxiety and anticipation. Like most utopian visions, this one aspired to perfection at the price of exclusion. Overlooking the West Indian laborers who built the Canal, its admirers praised the white elite that supervised and administered it. Inspired by the masculine ideal personified by President Theodore Roosevelt, writers depicted the Canal Zone as an emphatically male enterprise and Chief Engineer George W. Goethals as the emblem of a new type of social leader, the engineer-soldier, the benevolent despot. Examining these and other images of the Panama Canal project, Seaway to the Future shows how they reflected popular attitudes toward an evolving modern world and, no less important, helped shape those perceptions. Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association “Provide[s] a useful vantage on the world bequeathed to us by the forces that set out to put America astride the globe nearly a century ago.”—Chris Rasmussen, Bookforum
