The Political Economy of the Living Wage: a Study of Four Cities A Study of Four Cities |
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Author:
| Levin-Waldman, Oren M. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7656-1279-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
Publisher: | M. E. Sharpe Incorporated
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Imprint: | Sharpe Reference |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $47.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.