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Minimum wage policy in Great Britain and the United States / Jerold Waltman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waltman, Jerold L., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minimum wage--United States.
- Minimum wage.
- Minimum wage--Law and legislation--United States.
- Minimum wage--Government policy--United States.
- Minimum wage--Great Britain.
- Minimum wage--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Minimum wage--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzing wage policies and the political ideas that underlie them, including the irony of an Iraq funding bill leading to a minimum wage increase, this book compares not only Federal but State minimum wage policies and those of Britain as well. Going beyond the debate on public expenditure programs, the author examines the future of the ""welfare state"" - not from a perspective of entitlement but of citizenship in a public polity.
- Contents:
- The political economy of the minimum wage
- Origins
- Decay, death, and rebirth
- The national minimum wage in operation
- State and local minimum wage policies
- The living wage campaign.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611793746
- 1-281-79374-4
- 0-87586-602-6
- OCLC:
- 437224758
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