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Title: Living Wages & the Welfare State: The Anglo-American social model in transition
Author: WILSON SHAUN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 10/05/2021
Imprint: THE POLICY PRESS
Price: $58.00
Publishing status: Active
In the 21st century, 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 Australia, the UK, Canada, the US, New Zealand and Ireland, 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.
ISBN: 9781447341208
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm