Loughborough University
Browse

File(s) under permanent embargo

Reason: This item is currently closed access.

The living wage

book
posted on 2017-02-09, 09:55 authored by Donald Hirsch, Laura ValadezLaura Valadez
The "living wage" is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the concept is quite clear: it is a wage that provides workers with enough income to live on at some level considered adequate. However, in practice the term has become blurred with that of the "minimum wage" and in its implementation it has lacked a consistent meaning despite being widely used as a campaigning slogan. This short primer traces the origins of the concept of the living wage and seeks to explain the current rise in its fortunes as an economic instrument with a social objective. It examines its impact on labour markets and wage levels, explores how it has been applied, and assesses whether it is an effective measure for raising living standards. It offers a broad-ranging analysis of the debates, policy developments and limitations of wage floors in developed economies and will appeal to a wide readership in economics, public policy and sociology, as well as those working in non-profit and non-governmental organizations.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Pages

5

Citation

HIRSCH, D. and VALADEZ, L., 2017. The Living Wage. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017

Notes

This book is in closed access.

ISBN

9781911116455;9781911116462;9781911116479

Language

  • en