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The Red Cap’s Gift: How Tipping Tempers the Rational Power of Money

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2015

DANIEL LEVINSON WILK
DANIEL LEVINSON WILK*
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Daniel Levinson Wilk is Associate Professor of American History at the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of several articles on waiters, elevators, and the modern service sector. Contact information: Department of Social Sciences, Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001. E-mail: danlw@fitnyc.edu.
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Abstract

Modern people are obsessed with money, but the practice of tipping a waiter or chambermaid is a counterbalance against money’s tendency to infect human relations. People who tip infect money back, with nonmonetary values. This article provides a general history of tips investing money and monetary exchange with ideals such as status, dignity, waste, care, and play, in certain parts of the United States, c. 1880–1929. It also offers a case study of railroad red caps’ tips in the five years following passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; when tipping declined, it reduced red caps’ ability to invest their work with nonmonetary values.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 5 - 50
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