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

Subjects:

• Labor market -- Canada.
• Living wage movement -- Canada.
• Wages -- Canada.

Other Authors:

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