Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities IAS 9781444163148

9781444163148

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Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities IAS 9781444163148This 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