03339nam 2200673Ia 450 991081909730332120200520144314.01-134-48016-41-134-48017-21-280-11121-60-203-99413-210.4324/9780203994139 (CKB)1000000000251540(EBL)235264(OCoLC)475943045(SSID)ssj0000193570(PQKBManifestationID)11166604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193570(PQKBWorkID)10226581(PQKB)11425923(OCoLC)1000433127(MiAaPQ)EBC235264(EXLCZ)99100000000025154020030512d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving wages, equal wages gender and labor market policies in the United States /Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power1st ed.London Routledge20021 online resource (273 p.)Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ;1Description based upon print version of record.0-415-27391-9 0-415-27390-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 economics ;1.WagesUnited StatesWagesGovernment policyUnited StatesEqual pay for equal workUnited StatesWagesWagesGovernment policyEqual pay for equal work331.210973Figart Deborah M892390Mutari Ellen1956-1602978Power Marilyn1632491MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819097303321Living wages, equal wages3971668UNINA