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- Title
Nickels and Dimes Won't Fix This: The Future of Work and Pay in America.
- Authors
Leicht, Kevin T.
- Abstract
The global recession has made researchers and policy makers ask a broad set of questions about the future of work and pay in America. This article examines three recent books, Pollin et als A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (2008), Devault's People at WorkLife, Power, and Social Inclusion in the New Economy (2008), and Bartik and Houseman's A Future of Good Jobs?America's Challenge in the Global Economy (2008) for insights on this issue. From diverse methodologies and disciplinary perspectives, each helps to highlight that the most basic of all economic fundamentals is good jobs with good wages. The current economic downturn provides researchers and policy makers with an opportunity to examine critically the cumulative damage done to the American middle class by policies that ignore these economic fundamentals in favor of policies that favor unearned income while promoting easy credit and debt to disguise downward mobility
- Subjects
UNITED States; GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; INCOME; LEGISLATORS; WAGES; INCOME inequality; SOCIAL mobility; SOCIAL classes; DOWNWARD mobility (Social sciences)
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888410367586