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There was an anti-tipping movement in the interwar period in the US, on the basis that such a relationship of explicit subservience and having one's compensatio
by hotnfresh 3y ago
There was an anti-tipping movement in the interwar period in the US, on the basis that such a relationship of explicit subservience and having one's compensation for work subject to the whims of a master is un-American. I tend to agree.
- HWR_14 3y agoBy "interwar" you mean between the Civil War and WWI? Because it was a movement then. Between WWI and WWII (what I would read "interwar" to mean) the anti-tipping movement receded and tipping became commonplace.
- hotnfresh 3y agoI meant between WWI and II. I wasn't aware of the earlier movement. I first became aware of it watching the 1936 film version of The Petrified Forest, which features anti-tipping as a minor background element, and has a contemporary (to its release) setting—the play it's based on was published in 1934.
- HWR_14 3y agoAs I understand it, you were seeing the last vestige of the anti-tipping movement (just based on the timeline) in the movie. A few states even had anti-tipping laws before WWI that disappeared during the 20s.
- hotnfresh 3y agoInteresting, I'll adjust my internal timeline of those events to match reality :-) Thanks.