The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities: A Study of Four CitiesThis 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. |
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Inhalt
1 Introduction | 3 |
2 The Meaning of the Living Wage | 24 |
3 Contemporary Urban Theory | 64 |
Economic Factors | 94 |
The Politics | 133 |
6 The Changing Face of the Urban Political Landscape | 177 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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