Living Wages and the Welfare State: The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition
Shaun Wilson, "Living Wages and the Welfare State: The Anglo-American Social Model in Transition"
English | ISBN: 144734118X | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 144734118X | 2021 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed.
Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.