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Autore |
Figart Deborah M. |
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Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States / / M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-48016-4 |
1-134-48017-2 |
1-280-11121-6 |
0-203-99413-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MutariEllen <1956-> |
PowerMarilyn |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Equal pay for equal work |
Government policy |
United States |
Wages |
Labor & Workers' Economics |
Business & Economics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well |
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