The Political Economy Of The Living Wage
Subtitle: A Study Of Four Cities
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: December 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780765612786
Subjects: Labour economics; Political economy; Politics/International Relations; Municipal government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Living wage movement; Case studies; United States
Description: In this in-depth study Oren M. Levin-Waldman explains what factors led to the adoption of living wage laws in four cities: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. Analyzing each of these cases through the disciplinary lens of political science, the author shows that the movements were the results of policy failures at the local level. This scholarly approach shows clearly that the successful movements grew out of the failure of local policymakers to adequately address changes in the urban economic base and growing income inequality. [publisher web site].