All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement

by C. Snarr and C. Melissa Snarr

"Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."Mathew 11:28 (AKJV)
In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814741126
• ISBN13: 9780814741122
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"