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.-
Economics and Other Disciplines
- Economic Agents and Economic Motives
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Virtues, Morals and Markets
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Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought
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Health Care Economics
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Economics of Social Relations
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Welfare Economics
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Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap
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Working Time
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The Economics of Values-Based Organisations
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Human Nature in Modern Economics
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Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue
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Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities
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Ethics and the Market
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Economics as Social Science
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Social Capital and Economics
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Global Social Economy
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Social Economics
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The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior
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The Economics of Social Responsibility
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Poverty and Social Exclusion
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The Social Economics of Health Care
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The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care
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The Economics of Scientific Misconduct
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The Theory of the Individual in Economics
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The Capability Approach
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The Environmental Consequences of Growth
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Economic and Social Welfare
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Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions
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How Social Forces Impact the Economy
'In this volume, Professor Figart has drawn together eighteen scholars for the first comprehensive global analysis of the various living wages movementsThese essays bring to life the story of the distributive conditions of labor, through global activism and empirical research. It provides a fascinating detailed view of the ethical, political, economic and social foundations of the standard of living of the working classes in many nations. I highly recommend it for courses on labor economics, public policy and comparative political economy.' - Professor Phillp O'Hara, Global Political Economy Research Unit, Curtin University, Australia
'In this volume, Professor Figart has drawn together eighteen scholars for the first comprehensive global analysis of the various living wages movements. These essays bring to life the story of the distributive conditions of labor, through global activism and empirical research. It provides a fascinating detailed view of the ethical, political, economic and social foundations of the standard of living of the working classes in many nations. I highly recommend it for courses on labor economics, public policy and comparative political economy.' - Professor Phillp O'Hara, Global Political Economy Research Unit, Curtin University, Australia
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415655460 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415655463 |
| Title | Living Wage Movements |
| Author | Deborah M Figart |
| Series | Routledge Advances In Social Economics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2012-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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