Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: the challenge of a living wage -- 1. Minimum wage workers and the low-wage labour market -- 2. Low-wage workers and threats to working-class living standards -- 3. The crumbling orthodoxy: arguments for low minimum wages -- 4. Enter the new politics of the living wage -- 5. Challenges to living wage welfare states -- Conclusion: living wages and liberal welfare states in the 21st century -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back cover
Summary
Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative. Topical and poignant, this book identifies the success of living wage campaigns as central to both welfare state change and alternatives to the Basic Income
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