Living Wages Around The World

Author : Richard Anker,Martha Anker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN : 9781786431462

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Living Wages Around the World by Richard Anker,Martha Anker Pdf

This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.

Author : Tony Dobbins,Peter Prowse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000448672

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The Living Wage by Tony Dobbins,Peter Prowse Pdf

As wealth inequality skyrockets and trade union power declines, the living wage movement has become ever more urgent for public policymakers, academics, and – most importantly – those workers whose wages hover close to the breadline. A real living wage in any part of the world is rarely its minimum wage: it is the minimum income needed to cover living costs and participate fully in society. Most governments’ minimum wages are still falling short, meaning millions of workers struggle to cover their living costs. This book brings new, vital insights to the conversation from a carefully selected group of contributors at the forefront of this field. By juxtaposing advances across sectors and countries, and encompassing many different approaches and indeed definitions of the living wage, Dobbins and Prowse offer a rich tapestry of approaches that may inform public policy. By including the experiences and voices of those workers earning at, or near, the living wage alongside the opinions of leading experts in this field, this book is a pioneering contribution for public policymakers as well as students and academics of work and employment relations, public policy, organizational studies, social economics, and politics.

Author : Shelley Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192566003

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Living Wage by Shelley Marshall Pdf

This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and development, exploring why people become trapped in precarious work. The accounts describe the impact of supply chain governance, trade agreements, internal and between-country migration, legal factors, as well as the socio-economic characteristics and outlooks of the workers. In a unique approach, the chapters describe existing labour regulation measures that have succeeded, but which have to date attracted little scholarly attention. Building on these existing innovations, the book proposes a new international labour law which would incrementally increase the wages of the poor and regulate precarious work in global supply chains.

Author : Wilson, Shaun
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447341215

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Living Wages and the Welfare State by Wilson, Shaun Pdf

Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed. Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.

Author : R. Freeman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137099716

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Inequality Around the World by R. Freeman Pdf

One of the most troubling developments of the past two decades has been the dramatic rise in inequality among nations and within nations. This book examines the nature of this development in a variety of countries and contexts - China, Russia, Australia, Latin America, Italy - where the rise of inequality has not been studied as intensively as the US or UK. It also presents analyses of some potential causes and consequences of the rise in inequality.

Author : Bryan Evans,Carlo Fanelli,Tom McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0774864370

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Rising Up by Bryan Evans,Carlo Fanelli,Tom McDowell Pdf

Despite one of the highest rates of low-wage work in the West, Canada is home to a strong and storied labor movement. Rising Up traces the history of living wage activism in Canada and its battle against broken trade unions and dismantled safety nets. In a labor market characterized by inequality, instability, and austerity, the authors contend, the living wage movement must play a central role in our plans for a more equitable future.

Author : Deborah M. Figart,Ellen Mutari,Marilyn Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134480166

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Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States by Deborah M. Figart,Ellen Mutari,Marilyn Power Pdf

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.

Author : INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9220319489

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Global Wage Report 2020-21 by INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. Pdf

This ILO flagship report examines the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends globally and by region. The 2020-21 edition analyses the relationship of minimum wages and inequality, as well as the wage impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The 2020-21 edition also reviews minimum wage systems across the world and identifies the conditions under which minimum wages can reduce inequality. The report presents comprehensive data on levels of minimum wages, their effectiveness, and the number and characteristics of workers paid at or below the minimum. The report highlights how adequate minimum wages, statutory or negotiated, can play a key role in a human-centred recovery from the crisis

Author : James Edwin Thorold Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108001725087

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Six Centuries of Work & Wages by James Edwin Thorold Rogers Pdf

Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807081785

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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" by Annelise Orleck Pdf

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501702211

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A Living Wage by Lawrence B. Glickman Pdf

The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves." After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.

Author : Robert Pollin,Stephanie Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565845889

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The Living Wage by Robert Pollin,Stephanie Luce Pdf

The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.

Author : Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780203629451

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Living Wage Movements by Deborah M. Figart Pdf

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job insecurity. Upon reviewing the empirical evidence, the book's contributors make strong cases both for and against living wage activism. The effective blend of historical, contemporary, and global perspectives provides opportunities for teachers, scholars, and activists to evaluate how we can address low pay at the organizational and macroeconomic levels.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264214262

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How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820 by OECD Pdf

This book presents the first systematic evidence on long-term trends in global well-being since 1820 for 25 major countries and 8 regions in the world covering more than 80% of the world’s population.

Author : Engelbert Stockhammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137357939

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Wage-Led Growth by Engelbert Stockhammer Pdf

This volume seeks to go beyond the microeconomic view of wages as a cost having negative consequences on a given firm, to consider the positive macroeconomic dynamics associated with wages as a major component of aggregate demand.