The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities

By Oren M. Levin-Waldman

Book Overview

This book examines the movement for living wages at the local level and what it tells us about urban politics. Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. It is the author's belief that the living wage movements are a result of policy failure at the local level. They are the by-product of the failure to adequately address the changes that were occurring, mainly the changing urban economic base and growing income inequality. The author undertakes a scholarly analysis of the issue through the disciplinary lenses of political science while also employing some of the economists' tools.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765612798
• ISBN13: 9780765612793
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"