Author: Wilson, Shaun Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 144734121X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed. Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.
Author: Jerold L. Waltman Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 0875863043 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 506
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Waltman provides a detailed background for debates on welfare, workfare, and the "living wage." Reviews U.S. policy and demonstrates why early advocates of the welfare state wanted a living wage, why it has failed, and how it could be an essential element in providing economic justice and contributing to the prosperity of all. Also explains the difference between a minimum and a living wage and a fair and a just wage.causes and issues of poverty and inequality.
Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780765612786 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 266
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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.
Author: Sar A. Levitan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Monograph reviewing the role of the minimum wage in the USA - commenting on fair labour standards labour legislation of 1938 traces historical aspects, and using econometric model studies, analyses the impact of minimum wages relating to poverty among low income workers, unemployment, etc., and discusses wage policy issues emanating from the 1977 congressional round and in context with the welfare state. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author: Deborah M. Figart Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134480164 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 276
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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.
Author: Nicholas Deakin Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9780415212304 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
A range of different proposals were widely canvassed during the war years - the selection here is intended to resurrect a number of those that have subsequently dropped out of circulation but were influential in the climate of the times. A final section covers a number of early assessments of the implications of the introduction of welfare state legislation. Although the implementation of the welfare programme was in effect a bipartisan process it did not take long for doubts to be expressed. Some were directed at the principles on which the welfare state was being constructed. The collection closes with the discovery that poverty, whose banishment was a key objective of the whole enterprise, was still very much present.
Author: Kristin S. Seefeldt Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute ISBN: 0880993448 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 185
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Taps into the quantitative and qualitative evidence gathered in the Women's Employment Study (WES), offering insights into the lives of women in an urban Michigan county who left welfare for work and the role their family decisions play in their labor market decisions. Describes the day-to-day struggles these women face and the reasons they tend to remain in low-wage, dead-end jobs.
Author: Jerold L. Waltman Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 0875866018 Category : Minimum wage Languages : en Pages : 248
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Analyzing wage policies and the political ideas that underlie them, including the irony of an Iraq funding bill leading to a minimum wage increase, this book compares not only Federal but State minimum wage policies and those of Britain as well. Going beyond the debate on public expenditure programs, the author examines the future of the "welfare state"? not from a perspective of entitlement but of citizenship in a public polity.
Author: Edward D. Berkowitz Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as vocational rehabilitation. Their discussions range from those early programs to modern ones such as cost of living pay adjustments and social security disability benefits. This emphasis on the notion of the continuing development of welfare programs is a significant factor in the welfare state controversies--a factor often ignored by other historians and writers.
Author: Wilson, Shaun
Author: Jerold L. Waltman
Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Author: Sar A. Levitan
Author: Deborah M. Figart
Author: Oregon. Industrial Welfare Commission
Author: Nicholas Deakin
Author: Kristin S. Seefeldt
Author: Jerold L. Waltman
Author: Edward D. Berkowitz