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The Living Wage

Author : Tony Dobbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000448673
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Living Wage written by Tony Dobbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Living Wage Movements

Author : Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 : 0203629450
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Living Wage Movements written by Deborah M. Figart and published by 清华大学出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fighting for a Living Wage

Author : Stephanie Luce
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489471
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for a Living Wage written by Stephanie Luce and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of implementation -- Setting the stage: the political and economic context -- Overview of the movement -- A closer look at living wage campaigns -- Living wage outcomes -- Implementation: what happens after laws are passed? -- Fighting from the outside -- Coalitions playing a formal role -- Factors needed for successful implementation: inside and outside strategies -- Other outcomes beyond implementation -- The future of the living wage movement and lessons for policy implementation.

The Living Wage

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565845886
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Living Wage written by Robert Pollin and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.

A Living Wage

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501702211
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Living Wage written by Lawrence B. Glickman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves." After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.

Rising Up

Author : Bryan Evans
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864397
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Rising Up written by Bryan Evans and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response and solutions.

A Living Wage

Author : John Augustine Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Living Wage written by John Augustine Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting for a Living Wage

Author : Stephanie Luce
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728288
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for a Living Wage written by Stephanie Luce and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a critical evaluation in which Stephanie Luce, a national expert on living wage campaigns, assesses the strengths and shortcomings of various campaigns and their resulting implementation. Although many local governments have been convinced to pass living wage ordinances, the movement has had less success in ensuring that these ordinances are fully realized. Some cities have consistently enforced their ordinances after passage. In other communities implementation is weak or nonexistent, and thousands of workers do not benefit from laws designed to ensure that they are paid a living wage. Luce provides in Fighting for a Living Wage the first serious examination of the reasons for implementation failure, as well as an analysis of the factors that lead to success. Luce argues that citizens can play a significant role in implementing and monitoring living wage policies, even where governments oppose the movement or are reluctant to enforce the laws in question. Luce finds that the nature of the campaign to formulate and pass policy can influence the likelihood of successful implementation. Surprisingly, the chances for thorough enforcement are greater in communities where living wage campaigns caused more, not less, conflict. For more about this book and its author, click here.

All You That Labor

Author : C. Melissa Snarr
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814783899
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book All You That Labor written by C. Melissa Snarr and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”Mathew 11:28 (AKJV) In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances. Although religious persons and organizations have been important both in the origins of the living wage movement and in its continuing success, they are often ignored or under analyzed. Drawing on participant observation in multiple cities, All You That Labor analyzes and evaluates the contributions of religious activists to the movement. The book explores the ways religious organizations do this work in concert with low-wage workers, the challenges religious activists face, and how people of faith might better nurture moral agency in relation to the political economy. Ultimately, C. Melissa Snarr provides clarity on how to continue to cultivate, renew, and expand religious resources dedicated to the moral agency of low-wage workers and their allies.

The Fight for $15

Author : David Rolf
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620971143
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Fight for $15 written by David Rolf and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities

Author : Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315498030
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities written by Oren M. Levin-Waldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the movement for living wages at the local level and what it tells us about urban politics. Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. It is the author's belief that the living wage movements are a result of policy failure at the local level. They are the by-product of the failure to adequately address the changes that were occurring, mainly the changing urban economic base and growing income inequality. The author undertakes a scholarly analysis of the issue through the disciplinary lenses of political science while also employing some of the economists' tools.

A Measure of Fairness

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729527
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Measure of Fairness written by Robert Pollin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, maintain minimum wage standards above those set by the federal minimum wage.In A Measure of Fairness, Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce assess how well living wage and minimum wage regulations in the United States serve the workers they are intended to help. Opponents of such measures assert that when faced with mandated increases in labor costs, businesses will either lay off workers, hire fewer low-wage employees in the future, replace low-credentialed workers with those having better qualifications or, finally, even relocate to avoid facing the increased costs being imposed on them.The authors give an overview of living wage and minimum wage implementation in Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to show how these policies play out in the paychecks of workers, in the halls of legislature, and in business ledgers. Based on a decade of research, this volume concludes that living wage laws and minimum wage increases have been effective policy interventions capable of bringing significant, if modest, benefits to the people they were intended to help.

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

Author : Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134480164
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States written by Deborah M. Figart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Living Wage written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Living Wage A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers to a biological minimum, or a solidarity wage, which refers to a minimum wage tracking labor productivity. Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essential needs such as clothing. The goal of a living wage is to allow a worker to afford a basic but decent standard of living through employment without government subsidies. Due to the flexible nature of the term "needs", there is not one universally accepted measure of what a living wage is and as such it varies by location and household type. A related concept is that of a family wage one sufficient to not only support oneself, but also to raise a family. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Living wage Chapter 2: Minimum wage Chapter 3: Employment Chapter 4: Wage Chapter 5: Salary Chapter 6: Labour power Chapter 7: National Minimum Wage Act 1998 Chapter 8: Poverty in the United Kingdom Chapter 9: Minimum wage law Chapter 10: Minimum wage in the United States Chapter 11: Compensating differential Chapter 12: Monopsony Chapter 13: Wage theft Chapter 14: Tipped wage Chapter 15: Fight for $15 Chapter 16: National Living Wage Chapter 17: Living Wage Foundation Chapter 18: Unemployment in Hungary Chapter 19: Seattle's minimum wage ordinance Chapter 20: Wage growth Chapter 21: Local purchasing (II) Answering the public top questions about living wage. (III) Real world examples for the usage of living wage in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Living Wage.

Living Wages Around the World

Author : Richard Anker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431467
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Living Wages Around the World written by Richard Anker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.

The Living Wage

Author : Donald Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911116455
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Living Wage written by Donald Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "living wage" is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the concept is quite clear: it is a wage that provides workers with enough income to live on at some level considered adequate. However, in practice the term has become blurred with that of the "minimum wage" and in its implementation it has lacked a consistent meaning despite being widely used as a campaigning slogan. This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain the current rise in its fortunes as an economic instrument with a social objective. It examines its impact on labor markets and wage levels, explores how it has been applied, and assesses whether it is an effective measure for raising living standards. Drawing on case studies from France, the Netherlands, the USA, and the UK, The Living Wage offers a broad-ranging analysis of the debates, policy developments and limitations of wage floors in developed economies and will appeal to a wide readership in economics, public policy and sociology, as well as those working in non-profit and non-governmental organizations.

A Living Wage by Legislation

Author : Edwin V. O'Hara
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266257479
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book A Living Wage by Legislation written by Edwin V. O'Hara and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Living Wage by Legislation: The Oregon Experience The minimum wage movement is not an isolated program; it is an integral part of a general campaign for the establish ment of minimum standards of public health and well-being. It is intimately associated with the demand for the limitation of hours of labor; for accident prevention; for regulation of light, air, congestion and sanitation in the housing of the multitude for social insurance against accidents, sickness, old-age and unemployment; for popular education and indus trial training. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.