Stephanie G Luce

Fighting For A Living Wage

Fighting For A Living Wage

A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States

In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly...

The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy

An accessible and provocative argument for a national "living wage." "The living wage campaign is the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement."--Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect. With campaigns for a living wage sweeping th...

A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States

In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly...

What Works for Workers?: Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers

The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosp...

Fighting for a Living Wage (ILR Press Book)

The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and th...

Labor Movements: Global Perspectives

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, ...

By Stephanie Luce Labor Movements: Global Perspectives (1st Frist Edition) [Paperback]

By stephanie luce What Works for Workers?: Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers (1st First Edition) [Paperback]