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Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780765612786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOren 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: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-22
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1315498049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Bryan Evans
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2021-02-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0774864397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanada 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. Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. In the 1970s, the balance of political and economic power began to shift in favour of business, as trade unions weakened and governments failed to check corporate power. By the 2000s, austerity measures had dismantled social spending, facilitating the growth of low-waged employment. Contributors to this astute collection of essays examine union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Offering stimulating debate about living wages and social inequality, Rising Up promotes alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market.
Author: Marion Orr
Publisher: Studies in Government and Public Policy
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA path-breaking book--the first to examine the evolution of community organizing in U.S. cities. While embracing mobilization, the contributors acknowledge the challenges inherent in globalization and the norms and values that shape contemporary American culture. Still, they reaffirm that community organizing has an important role to play as part of a broader progressive movement.
Author: James Laurence Laughlin
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Anker
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1786431467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes annual List of doctoral dissertations in political economy in progress in American universities and colleges.
Author: Robert Pollin
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Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781565845886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.
