The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765612793)

This book examines the movement for living wages at the local level and what it tells us about urban politics. Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. It is the author's belief that the living wage movements are a result of policy failure at the local level. They are the by-product of the failure to adequately address the changes that were occurring, mainly the changing urban economic base and growing income inequality. The author undertakes a scholarly analysis of the issue through the disciplinary lenses of political science while also employing some of the economists' tools.

Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
ISBN-10: 0765612798
ISBN-13: 9780765612793
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 245
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.22w x 0.68d