But to labor's surprise and chagrin, many of the immigrant workers praise Cassone's 72-hour weeks and even its modest wages, viewing them as the key to achieving their American dream of buying a house and a family car.
The Fed pretends that the problem is a lack of wage growth, viewing wage growth as a means of paying for the mountainous debt it has created.
This was a move away from seeing poverty as the result of structural factors such as low wages towards viewing it as the consequence of ill-advised lifestyle choices.
But often, increases in the minimum wage are viewed as a talisman for those wishing to paint Australia as a "high wage/ low competition" economy.
The inflation hawks on the Federal Reserve's board of policy makers have made no secret of the fact that they view wage inflation as the biggest threat to stable economic growth.
My research with women and girls in Pakistan, for instance, highlights women who view waged-work not as a "choice" or "right" but as a form of compulsion in the context of an extremely precarious and exploitative work environment.
By the way, at various points in Keynes the master seems to agree, arguing that historically it had been possible to restore full employment by raising the quantity of money relative to wages; his view, however, was that something like a liquidity trap had become the norm by the 1930s.
In Greenwich Village, Jobs With Justice, an advocacy group financed by foundations and unions, has teamed with Washington Square United Methodist and other congregations to urge residents to patronize Gristedes, D'Agostino and other stores that provide wages and benefits they view as good.
Matthew Sharratt, an economist at Bank of America in London, said policy makers at the central bank would probably view the wage deal in Germany, the largest euro-zone economy, with alarm.
There is now a real danger that young people will view minimum wage work as exploitative".
