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The Itching Palm

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A public-domain study of tipping, money habits, service culture, and everyday social pressure.

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The Itching Palm

The Itching Palm examines the habit of tipping as an economic and social custom, arguing about labor, dignity, obligation, and public manners in early twentieth-century America. This English edition preserves the original argument for clear digital reading.

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The Itching Palm was first published in 1916, and the source text is available through Project Gutenberg as a public-domain English text. This edition uses the English original rather than a translation.

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The Itching Palm

William R. Scott

A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America

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I

Chapitre d'aperçuFLUNKYISM IN AMERICAAperçu

"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.

The full significance of the foregoing figures is realized in the further knowledge that these 5,000,000 persons with itching palms are fully 10 per cent of our entire industrial population; for the number of persons engaged in gainful occupations in this country is less than 50,000,000.

Whether this constitutes a problem for moralists, economists and statesmen depends upon the ethical appraisement of tipping. If tipping is moral, the interest is reduced to the economic phase--whether the remuneration thus given is normal or abnormal. If tipping is immoral, the fact that 5,000,000 Americans practice it constitutes a problem of first rate importance.

Accurate statistics are not obtainable, but conservative estimates place the amount of money given in one year by the American people in tips, or gratuities, at a figure somewhere between $200,000,000 and $500,000,000!

Now we have the full statement of the case against tipping--five million persons receiving in excess of two hundred millions of dollars for--what?

It will be interesting to examine the ethics, economics and psychology of tipping to determine whether the American people receive a value for this expenditure.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02I
  3. 03FLUNKYISM IN AMERICA
  4. 04II
  5. 05ON PERSONAL LIBERTY
  6. 06TIPPING UN-AMERICAN
  7. 07IF TIPPING IS UN-AMERICAN, SOME DAY, SOMEHOW, IT WILL BE UPROOTED LIKE
  8. 08AFRICAN SLAVERY
  9. 09SHORT-LIVED LAWS
  10. 10PERSONAL LIBERTY
  11. 11III
  12. 12BARBARY PIRATES
  13. 13TRIBUTE
  14. 14IV
  15. 15PERSONNEL AND DISTRIBUTION
  16. 16THE TIP-TAKING CLASSES
  17. 17CITY NUMBER
  18. 18IN NEW YORK ALONE
  19. 19V
  20. 20THE ECONOMICS OF TIPPING
  21. 21THE WAITER
  22. 22ECONOMIC WASTE
  23. 23THE BARBER
  24. 24THE HOTEL
  25. 25THE CHAUFFEUR
  26. 26VI
  27. 27THE ETHICS OF TIPPING
  28. 28THE PRICE OF PRIDE
  29. 29THE TEST OF DEMOCRACY
  30. 30TIPS DISLIKED BY RECIPIENTS
  31. 31CONSCIENCE IS STIRRING
  32. 32HUSH MONEY
  33. 33SPLITTING COMMISSIONS
  34. 34THE BIBLE AGAINST TIPS
  35. 35VII
  36. 36THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIPPING
  37. 37CASTE AND CLASS
  38. 38NO SUPERIOR CLASS
  39. 39TIPPING AND SLAVERY
  40. 40FIRST INGREDIENT, GENEROSITY
  41. 41CLOAKROOM TACTICS
  42. 42SECOND INGREDIENT, PRIDE
  43. 43THIRD INGREDIENT, FEAR
  44. 44THE REMEDY
  45. 45VIII
  46. 46THE LITERATURE OF TIPPING
  47. 47HOTEL FEES
  48. 48TIP--OR BE INSULTED
  49. 49HOW THE BOOKS HELP
  50. 50IN PRIVATE HOUSES
  51. 51ON OCEAN VOYAGES
  52. 52THE "RICH AMERICAN" MYTH
  53. 53IX
  54. 54TIPPING AND THE STAGE
  55. 55COMIC WOES
  56. 56TIPS IN THE MOVIES
  57. 57IMPRESSING THE YOUNG
  58. 58X
  59. 59THE EMPLOYEE VIEWPOINT
  60. 60THE SORE SPOT
  61. 61THE MARTYR
  62. 62BAGGAGEMEN
  63. 63BOOTBLACKS
  64. 64BARBER SHOP PORTERS
  65. 65DOOR MEN
  66. 66GUIDES
  67. 67HATBOYS
  68. 68JANITORS
  69. 69MANICURISTS
  70. 70MESSENGERS
  71. 71STENOGRAPHERS
  72. 72XI
  73. 73THE EMPLOYER VIEWPOINT
  74. 74THREE KINDS OF EMPLOYERS
  75. 75SELLING THE TIP PRIVILEGE
  76. 76ARE YOU A BENEFACTOR?
  77. 77A REASONABLE SOLUTION
  78. 78XII
  79. 79ONE STEP FORWARD
  80. 80A SOUND CODE
  81. 81FOR THE BENEFIT OF GUESTS
  82. 82NOT HOSPITALITY
  83. 83UP TO THE EMPLOYER
  84. 84THE FIRST STEP
  85. 85THE GUEST'S RIGHTS
  86. 86XIII
  87. 87THE SLEEPING-CAR PHASE
  88. 88WHAT THE PULLMAN MANAGER SAID
  89. 89WHAT THE PORTERS SAID
  90. 90SERVICE INCLUDED
  91. 91WHAT THE PRESS SAID
  92. 92XIV
  93. 93THE GOVERNMENT AND TIPPING
  94. 94FREE AND EQUAL
  95. 95EQUALITY AND UNIFORMITY
  96. 96MISGUIDED GENEROSITY
  97. 97THE GOLDEN RULE
  98. 98GOVERNMENT HOTELS
  99. 99XV
  100. 100LAWS AGAINST TIPPING
  101. 101CUSTOM ABOVE LAW
  102. 102THE IOWA LAW
  103. 103THE WISCONSIN BILL
  104. 104THE COURTS AND TIPPING
  105. 105THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW
  106. 106THE IDEAL LAW
  107. 107THE NEBRASKA ACT
  108. 108THE TENNESSEE LAW
  109. 109THE ILLINOIS COMPROMISE
  110. 110LEGALIZED ROBBERY
  111. 111IN MASSACHUSETTS
  112. 112XVI
  113. 113SAMUEL GOMPERS ON TIPPING
  114. 114WAITERS AGAINST THE TIP CUSTOM
  115. 115A LABOR LEADER ON TIPS
  116. 116EUROPEAN TIPS
  117. 117NIP! NIP!
  118. 118"BRIBE AND BE HAPPY"
  119. 119BORDERS ON BLACKMAIL
  120. 120MORAL PIRATES
  121. 121TOO MANY SERVANTS
  122. 122A SORRY BUSINESS
  123. 123VANITY, ALL IS VANITY!
  124. 124XVII
  125. 125THE WAY OUT
  126. 126BETTER ORGANIZATION NEEDED
  127. 127NOT A WAR AGAINST PERSONS
  128. 128PUBLIC OPINION
  129. 129PROMOTING LEGISLATION
  130. 130TO PREVENT COMPLAINT

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