Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States

by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart, Marilyn Power

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415273919
• ISBN13: 9780415273916
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.6"