The political economy of the living wage : a study of four cities / / Oren M. Levin-Waldman

• Autore: Levin-Waldman Oren M.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 331.23
• Soggetto topico: Living wage movement - United States; Municipal government - United States
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political economy of the living wage
• ISBN: 1-315-49805-7; 1-315-49804-9; 1-315-49803-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959644403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II