The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
A Study of Four Cities
- 264 pages
- English
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The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
A Study of Four Cities
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Figure
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Meaning of the Living Wage
- 3. Contemporary Urban Theory
- 4. Four Cities I: Economic Factors
- 5. Four Cities II: The Politics
- 6. The Changing Face of the Urban Political Landscape
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index