The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities

A Study of Four Cities

Oren M Levin-Waldman author

Format:Paperback

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: 9780765612793

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

264 pages