Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives

by Deborah M. Figart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415655463
• ISBN13: 9780415655460
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"