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Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States / / M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power



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Autore: Figart Deborah M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States / / M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina: 331.210973
331.4210973
Soggetto topico: Equal pay for equal work
Government policy
United States
Wages
Labor & Workers' Economics
Business & Economics
Altri autori: MutariEllen <1956->  
PowerMarilyn  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
Titolo autorizzato: Living wages, equal wages  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-48016-4
1-134-48017-2
1-280-11121-6
0-203-99413-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783879603321
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Serie: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics