Format:
1 Online-Ressource (v, 163 p)
ISBN:
9781848445161
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be paid a living wage
Content:
Introduction : the living wage -- Sustainability : subsistence, necessities, and unions -- Capability : work and wages, virtue and skill -- Externality, community and wages -- Lessons from the history of economic thought
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-156) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848441972 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848441975 (hardcover)
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 1848441975 (hardcover)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stabile, Donald R. The living wage Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2008 ISBN 9781848441972
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848441975
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
USA
;
Mindestlohn
;
Ideengeschichte
DOI:
10.4337/9781848445161
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