Less Than a Living Wage
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Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Cost and standard of living
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Cost and standard of living
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Author : Amy Glasmeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317721438
Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of economic distress. An Atlas of Poverty in America shows how and where America's regional development patterns have become more uneven, and graphically illustrates the increasing number of communities falling behind the national economic average. Readers will be able to use this Atlas to see how major events and trends have impacted the scope and extent of American poverty in the past half-century:economic globalization, the rise of the sunbelt, decline of the welfare state, and the civil rights movement. Also includes 195 colour maps.
Author : David Neumark
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : 0262141027
A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.
Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1501702211
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.
Author : Tony Dobbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000448673
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.
Author : Matt Uhler
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534500839
With the disappearance of well-paying jobs and the increasing cost of living, it’s becoming more and more difficult to stay afloat in the United States. Workers who earn the minimum wage often can’t afford the most basic needs. In response, more than 100 U.S. cities have issued living wage ordinances, requiring payments that allow workers to afford food, clothing, shelter, utilities, and healthcare. It may seem obvious that everyone wins with a living wage. But does paying out a living wage help or harm the economy? Should corporations be forced to pay them? What is society’s responsibility to its workers?
Author : Richard Anker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1786431467
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.
Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565845886
The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.
Author : Dale Belman
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0880994568
Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.
Author : John Augustine Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN :