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Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States /
Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, this informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Laying the groundwork: methodological frameworks and theoretical perspectives : 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
- pt. 2. Wage regulations in the twentieth century: 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
- pt. 3. The century ahead: Living wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiatives
- Applying feminist political economy to wage setting.