03672oam 2200817I 450 991045126860332120210106214757.01-134-48016-41-134-48017-21-280-11121-60-203-99413-210.4324/9780203994139 (CKB)1000000000251540(EBL)235264(OCoLC)475943045(SSID)ssj0000193570(PQKBManifestationID)11166604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193570(PQKBWorkID)10226581(PQKB)11425923(MiAaPQ)EBC235264(OCoLC)1000433127(EXLCZ)99100000000025154020180331d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving wages, equal wages gender and labor market policies in the United States /M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn PowerLondon :Routledge,2002.1 online resource (273 p.)Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist EconomicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-27391-9 0-415-27390-0 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 wagesLiving wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiativesApplying feminist political economy to wage setting; Notes; References; IndexWage 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 anRoutledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist EconomicsEqual pay for equal workEqual pay for equal workGovernment policyUnited StatesUnited StatesWagesWagesLabor & Workers' EconomicsHILCCBusiness & EconomicsHILCCElectronic books.Equal pay for equal work.Equal pay for equal work.Government policy.United States.United States.Wages.Wages.Labor & Workers' EconomicsBusiness & Economics331.210973331.4210973Figart Deborah M.892390Mutari Ellen1956-892391Power Marilyn948489AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910451268603321Living wages, equal wages2144056UNINA