Living Wages and the Welfare State : The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition /

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Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative. Topical and poignant, this book identifies the success of living wage campaigns as central to both welfare state change an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Shaun, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Presss, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Welfare state.
Minimum wage.
Living wage movement.
État providence > Études transculturelles.
Mouvement pour un salaire decent.
Salaires minimums > Études transculturelles.
Welfare state > Cross-cultural studies.
Minimum wage > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction: the challenge of a living wage
  • 1. Minimum wage workers and the low-wage labour market
  • 2. Low-wage workers and threats to working-class living standards
  • 3. The crumbling orthodoxy: arguments for low minimum wages
  • 4. Enter the new politics of the living wage
  • 5. Challenges to living wage welfare states
  • Conclusion: living wages and liberal welfare states in the 21st century
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back cover

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