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Living wages, equal wages : gender and labour market policies in the United States
- Title
- Living wages, equal wages : gender and labour market policies in the United States / Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power.
- Author
- Figart, Deborah M.
- Publication
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.
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- Description
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in feminist economics
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in feminist economics.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 231-251) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Laying the groundwork: methodological frameworks and theoretical perspectives. 1. Introduction: living wages, equal wages, and the value of women's work. 2. Waged work in the twentieth century. 3. Two faces of wages within the economics tradition: wages as a living, wages as a price. 4. The third face: wages as a social practice -- Pt. II. Wage regulations in the twentieth century. 5. An experiment in wage regulation: minimum wages for women. 6. A living for breadwinners: the federal minimum wage. 7. Job evaluation and the ideology of equal pay. 8. Legislating equal wages -- Pt. III. The century ahead. 9. Living wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiatives. 10. Applying feminist political economy to wage setting.
- ISBN
- 0415273900
- 0415273919 (PBK.)
- OCLC
- ocm49350882
- SCSB-4296694
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries