Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: the challenge of a living wage
- 1 Minimum wage workers and the low-wage labour market
- 2 Low-wage workers and threats to working-class living standards
- 3 The crumbling orthodoxy: arguments for low minimum wages
- 4 Enter the new politics of the living wage
- 5 Challenges to living wage welfare states
- Conclusion: living wages and liberal welfare states in the 21st century
- Notes
- References
- Index
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: the challenge of a living wage
- 1 Minimum wage workers and the low-wage labour market
- 2 Low-wage workers and threats to working-class living standards
- 3 The crumbling orthodoxy: arguments for low minimum wages
- 4 Enter the new politics of the living wage
- 5 Challenges to living wage welfare states
- Conclusion: living wages and liberal welfare states in the 21st century
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Living Wages and the Welfare StateThe Anglo-American Social Model in Transition, pp. viPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021