| Description |
xiv, 258 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 1
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-251) and index. |
| Contents |
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 ahead : Living wages, equal wages revisited : contemporary movements and policy initiatives -- Applying feminist political economy to wage setting. |
| Subject |
Wages.
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Wages -- Government policy.
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Equal pay for equal work.
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| Added Author |
Mutari, Ellen, 1956-
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Power, Marilyn.
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| ISBN |
0415273919 (PBK.) L.19.99 |
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0415273900 |
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