Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 287 pages)
ISBN:
9780774864381
,
9780774864398
Content:
Rising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Resisting Low-Wage Work -- The "Standard" Employment Relationship: Low-Wage Work -- The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages -- Labour Justice -- Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement -- The Fight for Living Wages in Canada -- The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada's Northern Territories -- Getting by but Dreaming of Normal -- The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious -- Working for a Living, Not Living for Work -- The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign -- Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan's Living Wage Debate -- Resistance and Alternatives -- The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton -- Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta, 1999-2009 -- The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can Be Done? -- Contributors.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774864367
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774864374
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rising up Vancouver : UBC Press, 2021 ISBN 9780774864367
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0774864362
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Political Science
