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200 10$aLiving wages, equal wages $egender and labor market policies in the United States /$fM. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power
210  1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2002.
215   $a1 online resource (273 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-415-27391-9 
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327   $aBook 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
327   $aLiving wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiativesApplying feminist political economy to wage setting; Notes; References; Index
330   $aWage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures.The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely an
410  0$aRoutledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
606   $aEqual pay for equal work
606   $aEqual pay for equal work
606   $aGovernment policy
606   $aUnited States
606   $aUnited States
606   $aWages
606   $aWages
606   $aLabor & Workers' Economics$2HILCC
606   $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC
608   $aElectronic books.
615  4$aEqual pay for equal work.
615  4$aEqual pay for equal work.
615  4$aGovernment policy.
615  4$aUnited States.
615  4$aUnited States.
615  4$aWages.
615  4$aWages.
615  7$aLabor & Workers' Economics
615  7$aBusiness & Economics
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700   $aFigart$b Deborah M.$0892390
701   $aMutari$b Ellen$f1956-$0892391
701   $aPower$b Marilyn$0948489
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