A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects, credited to John A. Ryan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects by John A. Ryan. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Inspired by the encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, Fr. John Ryan makes the case that employers must provide a living wage and cannot hide behind notions of free contract while highlighting that a living wage is an explicit principle of Catholic ethics. (Summary by progressingamerica)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
• Author credits: John A. Ryan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:42

Catalogue topics

• economics
• ethics
• wages

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Preface — 5:01
2. 01 - Introduction, by Richard T. Ely — 5:11
3. 02 - Chapter I: Economic and Legal Presumptions against a Living Wage — 18:54
4. 03 - Chapter I, continued — 14:59
5. 04 - Chapter II: Some Authorities in Favor of an Ethical Standard for Fixing Wages — 17:16
6. 05 - Chapter II, continued — 14:02
7. 06 - Chapter III: The Basis and Justification of Rights — 39:44
8. 07 - Chapter IV: The Right to Subsistence and the Right to a Decent Livelihood — 21:42
9. 08 - Chapter V: The Right to a Personal Living Wage — 18:32
10. 09 - Chapter V, continued — 39:22
11. 10 - Chapter VI: The Right to a Family Living Wage — 20:01
12. 11 - Chapter VII: A Concrete Estimate of a Living Wage — 28:11
13. 12 - Chapter VII, continued — 13:17
14. 13 - Chapter VIII: The Underpaid Laborers of America: their Number and Prospects — 23:23
15. 14 - Chapter VIII, continued — 17:56
16. 15 - Chapter IX: Our Industrial Resources and a Living Wage for All — 22:59
17. 16 - Chapter X: The Forces that Regulate Price — 14:54
18. 17 - Chapter XI: Rent — 15:49
19. 18 - Chapter XII: Profits — 6:42
20. 19 - Chapter XIII: Interest — 15:32
21. 20 - Chapter XIV: Wages — 16:09
22. 21 - Chapter XV: The Obligation of the Employer — 17:11
23. 22 - ChapterXV, continued — 20:20
24. 23 - Chapter XVI: The Obligation of the Loan-Capitalist, the Landowner, the Consumer, and the Man of Wealth — 28:22

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