The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
A Study of Four Cities
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Nov '04
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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.
ISBN: 9780765612786
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
264 pages