Living Wages, Equal Wages (Routledge Advances in Feminist Economics)
Editorial Reviews
Review
This well-written book should be adopted in a variety of classes. It would be useful to the scholar or to the undergraduate or graduate student in labor economics or in a course in the sociology of labor.
-Journal of Economic Issues
This volume...provides cmprehensive coverage of the history of both federal and state laws and practices concerning wages in the US.
-Choice
The controversial issue of establishing a living wage for all workers makes this book a timely contribution to the wide-ranging debate on gender and labor market policies.
-Business Horizons
Book Description
Explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity, and class into account. Offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the renumeration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures.
Living Wages, Equal Wages (Routledge Advances in Feminist Economics)
Living Wages, Equal Wages (Routledge Advances in Feminist Economics),Deborah Figart,Ellen Mutari,Marylin Power,Routledge,0415273900,Business / Economics / Finance,Business Ethics,Economics - General,Gender Studies,General,Organizational Behavior,Social Science,Sociology,Women & Business,20th century,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Labour economics,USA,Work & labour
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