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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782795403321

Autore

Waltman Jerold L. <1945->

Titolo

Minimum wage policy in Great Britain and the United States [[electronic resource] /] / Jerold Waltman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2008

ISBN

9786611793746

1-281-79374-4

0-87586-602-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

331.2/30941

Soggetti

Minimum wage - United States

Minimum wage - Law and legislation - United States

Minimum wage - Government policy - United States

Minimum wage - Great Britain

Minimum wage - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Minimum wage - Government policy - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The political economy of the minimum wage -- Origins -- Decay, death, and rebirth -- The national minimum wage in operation --  State and local minimum wage policies -- The living wage campaign.

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzing wage policies and the political ideas that underlie them, including the irony of an Iraq funding bill leading to a minimum wage increase, this book compares not only Federal but State minimum wage policies and those of Britain as well. Going beyond the debate on public expenditure programs, the author examines the future of the ""welfare state"" - not from a perspective of entitlement but of citizenship in a public polity.