Living Wage Movements

Living wage activism has spanned time and space reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour macroeconomic instability and job insecurity.Upon reviewing the empirical evidence the book's contributors make strong cases both for and against living wage activism. The effective blend of historical contemporary and global perspectives provides opportunities for teachers scholars and activists to evaluate how we can address low pay at the organizational and macroeconomic levels.