A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
Nonfiction work
By: John A. Ryan Date: 1906 Source: Ryan, John A. A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects. New York: Macmillan, 1906. Reprint, New York: Macmillan, 1912, 324–326.
About the Author: John A. Ryan (1869–1945) was ordained a priest in 1898. He continued his studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was influenced by Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), which promoted the rights of labor. Ryan advocated social justice through his writings and his position in the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC). He composed the pamphlet "Social Reconstruction," which was adopted by the NCWC in 1919 and anticipated much of the legislation of the New Deal.
Introduction
In his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII provided a Catholic response to the...
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