Rising up : the fight for living wage work in Canada

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""Rising Up" traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In...

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ISBN:

9780774864367

Uniform Title:

Rising up (Vancouver, B.C.)

Description:

x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Fight for living wage work in Canada

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Issued also in electronic format

Contents:

Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages / Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell
The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages / Stephen McBride, Sorin Mitrea, and Mohammad Ferdosi
Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labour Movement / Biko Koenig and Deva Woodly
Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement / Carlo Fanelli and A.J. Wilson
The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada's Northern Territories / Kendall Hammond
Getting by but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott
The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of "Illegalized" Migrant Workers / Charity-Ann Hannan, John Shields, and Harald Bauder
Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes / Mary-Dan Johnston and Christine Saulnier
The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building / Catherine Ludgate
Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan's Living Wage Debate / Andrew Stevens
The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach / David Goutor
Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson
The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can Be Done? / Tom McDowell, Sune Sandbeck, and Bryan Evans

Control Number:

3086974

Other Authors:

Evans, Bryan, 1960- editor
Fanelli, Carlo, 1984- editor
McDowell, Tom, 1980- editor

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