The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities
Author | : Oren M. Levin-Waldman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781315498034 |
ISBN-13 | : 1315498030 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.