The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities

A Study of Four Cities

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315498034
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

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.

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