Living Wages Equal Wages Gender And Labour Market Policies In The United States

Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.

In this pathbreaking book, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth century, focusing on three sets of issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument over equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the current debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories. Together these issues trace the many ways in which gendered meaning has been produced, transmitted, and challenged.

Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, this informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account.

The 2018/19 edition analyses the gender pay gap. The report focuses on two main challenges: how to find the most useful means for measurement, and how to break down the gender pay gap in ways that best inform policy-makers and social partners of the factors that underlie it. The report also includes a review of key policy issues regarding wages and the reduction of gender pay gaps in different national circumstances. “The Global Wage Report is an indispensable for economists, trade unionists, employers and the interested public.” − Hansjörg Herr, Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Research report on woman worker wage differential trends and equal pay issues in the USA - comments on labour legislation, discusses the occupational structure, factors causing sex discrimination in wage determination (incl. Internal labour markets and labour market segmentation), failures of current job evaluation methods, etc., suggests personnel management measures for asssessing comparable worth, and includes a literature survey. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

This document provides some historical factors relating to equal pay. It discusses value and equity, equal pay since 1970, the pay equity programmes, job evaluation, issues arising from pay equity, and alternatives.