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Rising up : the fight for living wage work in Canada / edited by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell.

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Contributor:
McDowell, Tom, 1980- editor.
Fanelli, Carlo, 1984- editor.
Evans, Bryan, 1960- editor.
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Rosengarten Family Fund.
Standardized Title:
Rising up (Vancouver, B.C.)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Living wage movement--Canada.
Living wage movement.
Wages--Canada.
Wages.
Labor market--Canada.
Labor market.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2021]
Contents:
Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages / Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell
The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages / Stephen McBride, Sorin Mitrea, and Mohammad Ferdosi
Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labour Movement / Biko Koenig and Deva Woodly
Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement / Carlo Fanelli and A.J. Wilson
The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada's Northern Territories / Kendall Hammond
Getting by but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott
The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of "Illegalized" Migrant Workers / Charity-Ann Hannan, John Shields, and Harald Bauder
Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes / Mary-Dan Johnston and Christine Saulnier
The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building / Catherine Ludgate
Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan's Living Wage Debate / Andrew Stevens
The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach / David Goutor
Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson
The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can Be Done? / Tom McDowell, Sune Sandbeck, and Bryan Evans.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2021).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Rising up.
ISBN:
0774864389
9780774864398
0774864397
9780774864381
Publisher Number:
40031183649
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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