The political economy of the living wage : a study of four cities

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Title:

The political economy of the living wage : a study of four cities

Author:

Levin-Waldman, Oren M.

ISBN:

9780765612793

9780765612786

Personal Author:

Levin-Waldman, Oren M.

Publication Information:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.

Physical Description:

xv, 245 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. The meaning of the living wage -- 3. Contemporary urban theory -- 4. Four cities I : economic factors -- 5. Four cities II : the politics -- 6. The changing face of the urban political landscape.

Subject Term:

Living wage movement -- United States -- Case studies.

Municipal government -- United States -- Case studies.

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Summary

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.