Living wages, equal wages:gender and labor market policies in the United States
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Group Author: | ; |
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | London New York |
Publication Dates: | 2002. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 1 |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 258 p.: ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0415273900 0415273919 (PBK.) |
Index Number: | F249 |
CLC: | F249.712.4 |
Call Number: | F249.712.4/F471 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt. 1. Laying the groundwork: methodological frameworks and theoretical perspectives : Introduction, living wages, equal wages, and the value of women's work -- Waged work in the twentieth century -- Two faces of wages within the economics tradition: wages as a living, wages as a price -- The third face: wages as a social practice -- pt. 2. Wage regulations in the twentieth century: An experiment in wage regulation: minimum wages for women -- A living for breadwinners: the federal minimum wage -- Job evaluation and the ideology of equal pay -- Legislating equal wages -- pt. 3. The century ah |