Author: William Rufus Scott
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Category : Tipping
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: William Rufus Scott
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ISBN: 9781909606456
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Languages : en
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A study and indictment of the habit of tipping in America, first published in 1916. Today more relevant than ever.

Author: William Scott
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ISBN: 9781483999876
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Languages : en
Pages : 124

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"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

Author: William Rufus 1886 Scott
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372170188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Kerry Segrave
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786442468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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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.

Author: William R. Scott
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ISBN: 9781332327751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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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.

Author: William R. Scott
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ISBN: 9780649518593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Dorothy Cobble
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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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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Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 1258

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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1258

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