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Autore |
Figart Deborah M |
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Titolo |
Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States / / Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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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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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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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 ; ; 1 |
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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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Wages - United States |
Wages - Government policy - United States |
Equal pay for equal work - United States |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 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 |
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