Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures.The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.

Business & Money

Mutari, Ellen

Figart, Deborah M.

Power, Marilyn

Business Culture

Routledge

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.

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.

Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)

Economics

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.

Living Wage Movements (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)

Women and the Economy: A Reader

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.

Using a political economy perspective, Contesting the Market explores pay equity in the context of a deregulating global economy. Deborah M. Figart and Peggy Kahn use Michigan, the quintessential example of the deindustrializing heartland, as an instructive case, contending that the state's decision-making concerning pay equity was related to a broader politics of the economy, of political parties, and of debate over the appropriate roles of the state and the market. Contesting the Market chronicles and analyzes the role of the national pay equity movement, specific women's organizations inside state institutions, and public sector unions in placing a discussion of wage discrimination on the state's agenda. Figart and Kahn contend that the large-scale, systemic, relatively technocratic efforts to create comparable worth in state government will probably have limited success.

Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring

Kahn, Peggy

Wayne State University

Economic Well-being

Washington, DC : NASW Press

Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives

Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States

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Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)

Living Wage Movements (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)

Women and the Economy: A Reader

Women and the Economy: A Reader

Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring

Economic Well-being

Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives

Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States