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Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
An analysis of the effects of living wage ordinances on low-wage workers and their families.
The Detroit Living Wage Ordinance
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
An analysis of the effects of living wage ordinances on low-wage workers and their families.
The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
Author: Oren M. Levin-WaldmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315498049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This 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.
Living Wages
Author: Zagros Madjd-SadjadiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Notice of Detroit Living Wage Rates Adjustment Effective May 1, 1999
Author: Detroit (Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Right to a Living Wage
Author: Matt UhlerPublisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1534500820
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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?
Living Wage Movements
Author: Deborah M. FigartPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134362420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
Author: Oren M. Levin-WaldmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315498030
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This 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.
Fighting for a Living Wage
Author: Stephanie LucePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728288
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a critical evaluation in which Stephanie Luce, a national expert on living wage campaigns, assesses the strengths and shortcomings of various campaigns and their resulting implementation. Although many local governments have been convinced to pass living wage ordinances, the movement has had less success in ensuring that these ordinances are fully realized. Some cities have consistently enforced their ordinances after passage. In other communities implementation is weak or nonexistent, and thousands of workers do not benefit from laws designed to ensure that they are paid a living wage. Luce provides in Fighting for a Living Wage the first serious examination of the reasons for implementation failure, as well as an analysis of the factors that lead to success. Luce argues that citizens can play a significant role in implementing and monitoring living wage policies, even where governments oppose the movement or are reluctant to enforce the laws in question. Luce finds that the nature of the campaign to formulate and pass policy can influence the likelihood of successful implementation. Surprisingly, the chances for thorough enforcement are greater in communities where living wage campaigns caused more, not less, conflict. For more about this book and its author, click here.
Economic Analysis of a Living Wage Ordinance
Author: George S. TolleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minimum wage
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Measure of Fairness
Author: Robert PollinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501729527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, maintain minimum wage standards above those set by the federal minimum wage.In A Measure of Fairness, Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce assess how well living wage and minimum wage regulations in the United States serve the workers they are intended to help. Opponents of such measures assert that when faced with mandated increases in labor costs, businesses will either lay off workers, hire fewer low-wage employees in the future, replace low-credentialed workers with those having better qualifications or, finally, even relocate to avoid facing the increased costs being imposed on them.The authors give an overview of living wage and minimum wage implementation in Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to show how these policies play out in the paychecks of workers, in the halls of legislature, and in business ledgers. Based on a decade of research, this volume concludes that living wage laws and minimum wage increases have been effective policy interventions capable of bringing significant, if modest, benefits to the people they were intended to help.