Low wages in a wealthy world
By: Gerhard Bosch ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Bosch, Gerhard.
Series: The Russell Sage Foundation case studies of job quality in advanced economies
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780871540614
Subjects: Wages; Minimum wage; Manpower policy; Labor market
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Low pay, living standards and employment / Geoff Mason and Wiemer Salverda; title: Industrial relations, legal regulations, and wage setting / Gerhard Bosch, Ken Mayhew, and Jerome Gautié; title: The impact of institutions on the supply side of the low-wage labor market / Jerome Gautié, Niels Wiestergaard-Nielsen, and John Schmitt with Ken Mayhew; title: Institutions, firms, and the quality of jobs in low wage labor markets / Eileen Appelbaum; title: Retail jobs in comparative perspective / Françoise Carré, Chris Tilly, Maarten van Klaveren, and Dorothea Voss-Dahm; title: Working at the wage floor : hotel room attendants and labor market institutions in Europe and the United States / Achim Vanselow, Chris Warhurst, Annette Bernhardt and Laura Dresser; title: Cleaning and nursing in hospitals : institutional variety and the reshaping of low-wage jobs / Philippe Méhaut, Peter Berg, Damian Grimshaw, Karen Jaerhling with Marc van der Meer and Jakob Eskilden; title: Tough meat, hard candy : implications for low wage work in the food processing industry / Klaus G. Grunert, Susan James, and Phillip Moss; title: Restructuring customer service : labor market institutions and call center workers in Europe and the United States / Caroline Lloyd, Claudia Weinkopf, and Rosemary Batt.