The Living Wage

The Living Wage
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781000448672
ISBN-13 : 1000448673
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Living Wage by : Tony Dobbins

As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and – most importantly – those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is rarely its minimum wage: it is the minimum income needed to cover living costs and participate fully in society. Most governments’ minimum wages are still falling short, meaning millions of workers struggle to cover their living costs. This book brings new, vital insights to the conversation from a carefully selected group of contributors at the forefront of this field. By juxtaposing advances across sectors and countries, and encompassing many different approaches and indeed definitions of the living wage, Dobbins and Prowse offer a rich tapestry of approaches that may inform public policy. By including the experiences and voices of those workers earning at, or near, the living wage alongside the opinions of leading experts in this field, this book is a pioneering contribution for public policymakers as well as students and academics of work and employment relations, public policy, organizational studies, social economics, and politics.

Wage Movements

Wage Movements
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924055927366
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

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Wages Against Housework

Wages Against Housework
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105010463599
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Wages Against Housework by : Silvia Federici

Living Wage Movements

Living Wage Movements
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Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780203629451
ISBN-13 : 0203629450
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Living Wage Movements by : Deborah M. Figart

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job insecurity. Upon reviewing the empirical evidence, the book's contributors make strong cases both for and against living wage activism. The effective blend of historical, contemporary, and global perspectives provides opportunities for teachers, scholars, and activists to evaluate how we can address low pay at the organizational and macroeconomic levels.

The Fight for $15

The Fight for $15
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Publisher : New Press, The
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781620971147
ISBN-13 : 1620971143
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fight for $15 by : David Rolf

“Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist). Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for $15 makes a deeply informed case for a national fifteen-dollars-an-hour minimum wage as the only practical solution to reversing America’s decades-long slide toward becoming a low-wage nation. Drawing both on new scholarship and on his extensive practical experiences organizing workers and grappling with inequality across the United States, David Rolf, president of SEIU 775—which waged the successful Seattle campaign for a fifteen dollar minimum wage—offers an accessible explanation of “middle out” economics, an emerging popular economic theory that suggests that the origins of prosperity in capitalist economies lie with workers and consumers, not investors and employers. A blueprint for a different and hopeful American future, The Fight for $15 offers concrete tools, ideas, and inspiration for anyone interested in real change in our lifetimes. “The author’s plainspoken approach and stellar scholarship illuminate in-depth discussions about the deliberate policy decisions that began to decimate the middle class at the start of the 1980s as well as the insidious new ways in which big business continues to attack American workers today via stagnant wages, rampant subcontracting, unpredictable scheduling, and other detrimental practices associated with the so-called ‘share economy.’” —Kirkus Reviews “David Rolf has become the most successful advocate for raising wages in the twenty-first century.” —Andy Stern, senior fellow at Columbia University’s Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy

Wage Movements: Wage Trends 1939-1949

Wage Movements: Wage Trends 1939-1949
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D03400680R
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (0R Downloads)

Synopsis Wage Movements: Wage Trends 1939-1949 by : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Living Wage

The Living Wage
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 250
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1565845889
ISBN-13 : 9781565845886
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Living Wage by : Robert Pollin

The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.

Wages for Housework

Wages for Housework
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Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages : 323
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0745338682
ISBN-13 : 9780745338682
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Wages for Housework by : Louise Toupin

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

The Race between Education and Technology

The Race between Education and Technology
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9780674037731
ISBN-13 : 0674037731
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Race between Education and Technology by : Claudia Goldin

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America the richest nation in the world. Its educational system had always been less elite than that of most European nations. By 1900 the U.S. had begun to educate its masses at the secondary level, not just in the primary schools that had remarkable success in the nineteenth century. The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and what might be done to ameliorate it.