Living wages, equal wages
Subtitle: gender and labor market policies in the United States
By: Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power.
Contributors: Mutari, Ellen, 1956-; Power, Marilyn.
Series: Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics -- 1.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Wages -- United States.; Wages -- Government policy -- United States.; Equal pay for equal work -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Pt. 1. Laying the groundwork: methodological frameworks and theoretical perspectives : Introduction, living wages, equal wages, and the value of women's work; Waged work in the twentieth century; Two faces of wages within the economics tradition: wages as a living, wages as a price; The third face: wages as a social practice; pt. 2. Wage regulations in the twentieth century: An experiment in wage regulation: minimum wages for women; A living for breadwinners: the federal minimum wage; Job evaluation and the ideology of equal pay; Legislating equal wages; pt. 3. The century ahead: Living wages, equal wages revisited: contemporary movements and policy initiatives; Applying feminist political economy to wage setting.