Living wages, equal wages:gender and labor market policies in the United States

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Figart Deborah M
Group Author: Mutari Ellen 1956-; Power Marilyn
Published: Routledge,
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