Project Gutenberg 2013-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 99 Ross, J. Elliot (John Elliot) 1884 1946 Ross, John Elliot 12024605 Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap 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? 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.) "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.) Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Wages -- United States Wages Consumers -- United States HD Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Sociology Category: Economics 282658 2025-07-17T10:31:00.336207 text/html 246140 2024-10-23T16:38:23 text/html 182014 2025-07-17T10:31:09.637185 application/epub+zip 182953 2025-07-17T10:31:04.306191 application/epub+zip 150426 2025-07-17T10:31:02.783208 application/epub+zip 414962 2025-07-17T10:31:13.173117 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391762 2025-07-17T10:31:08.461151 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 293298 2022-09-19T16:07:54.376263 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 193719 2023-09-18T14:43:32.788418 text/plain 173676 2024-10-23T16:38:23 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17250 2025-07-17T10:31:13.313108 application/rdf+xml 20958 2025-07-17T10:31:03.337157 image/jpeg 4456 2025-07-17T10:31:03.059215 image/jpeg 173908 2025-07-17T10:31:00.355202 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog