Living Wages and the Welfare State: The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition

by Shaun Wilson

Book Overview

Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed.

Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144734118X
• ISBN13: 9781447341185
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"