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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451268603321

Autore

Figart Deborah M.

Titolo

Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States / / M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-48016-4

1-134-48017-2

1-280-11121-6

0-203-99413-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

Altri autori (Persone)

MutariEllen <1956->

PowerMarilyn

Disciplina

331.210973

331.4210973

Soggetti

Equal pay for equal work

Government policy

United States

Wages

Labor & Workers' Economics

Business & Economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: living wages, equal wages, and the value of women's work; Waged work in the twentieth century; Two faces of wages within the economics tradition: wages as a living, wages as a price; The third face: wages as a social practice; An experiment in wage regulation: minimum wages for women; A living for breadwinners: the federal minimum wage; Job evaluation and the ideology of equal pay; Legislating equal wages

Living wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiativesApplying feminist political economy to wage setting; Notes; References; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 an