Living wages, equal wages [electronic resource] : gender and labor market policies in the United States / Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power.

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Figart, Deborah M

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TextSeries: Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 1Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: xiv, 258 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:

0203994132 (electronic bk.)

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Electronic books.

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331.2/973 22

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HD4975 .F55 2002eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.