7½ Cents
First edition cover | |
| Author | Richard Bissell |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Jane Pitts |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1953 (Atlantic-Little, Brown) |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 245 |
7+1⁄2 Cents is a 1953 novel by Richard Bissell, his third book and second novel. It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. With George Abbott, Bissell adapted it into the musical The Pajama Game, which was a hit on Broadway and won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical.
The novel is set in the fictional Junction City, Iowa, a few years after the end of the Second World War. The novel humorously follows the problems of Sidney Sorokin from Chicago, recently hired as a labor superintendent at the Sleep Tite pajama factory, as the union stages a slowdown over its demand for a 7+1⁄2 cents per hour wage increase.