This in-depth analysis of the Minnesota experience where pay equity has proceeded farther than any other place in the nation focuses on what actually happened in implementing the most important and controversial wage policy since minimum wage and on the political, organizational, and personal consequences of using technocratic methods to change wage policy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (Women in Culture & Society)

Business & Money

Evans, Sara M.

Nelson, Barbara J.

Economics

Univ of Chicago Pr

Making an Issue of Child Abuse

In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

University of Chicago Press

Social Sciences

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Nelson, Barbara J.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Nelson, Barbara J.