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.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 232 ● ISBN 9781447341192 ● Publisher Policy Press ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8054931 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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