Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Figart, Deborah M.
Other Authors: Mutari, Ellen, 1956-, Power, Marilyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 1.
Subjects:
Wages > United States.
Wages > Government policy > United States.
Equal pay for equal work > United States.
Salaires > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Égalité de rémunération > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Equal pay for equal work.
Wages.
Wages > Government policy.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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