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UNINA9910959644403321 |
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Autore |
Levin-Waldman Oren M. |
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Titolo |
The political economy of the living wage : a study of four cities / / Oren M. Levin-Waldman |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-49805-7 |
1-315-49804-9 |
1-315-49803-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Living wage movement - United States |
Municipal government - 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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Previously issued in print: Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. |
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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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The meaning of the living wage -- Contemporary urban theory -- Four cities I : economic factors -- Four cities II : the politics -- The changing face of the urban political landscape. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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