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Book SynopsisRising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.
Trade ReviewThis is an older, more classical, and well-informed political economy analysis. -- T. M. Bateman, St. Thomas University * CHOICE Connect *
Table of Contents1 Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages / Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell
Part 1: The "Standard" Employment Relationship: Low-Wage Work
2 The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages / Stephen McBride, Sorin Mitrea, and Mohammad Ferdosi
3 Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labor Movement / Biko Koenig and Deva Woodly
4 Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement / Carlo Fanelli and A.J. Wilson
Part 2: The Fight for Living Wages in Canada
5 The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada’s Northern Territories / Kendall Hammond
6 Getting By but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott
7 The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of "Illegalized" Migrant Workers / Charity-Ann Hannan, John Shields, and Harald Bauder
8 Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes / Mary-Dan Johnston and Christine Saulnier
9 The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building / Catherine Ludgate
10 Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan’s Living Wage Debate / Andrew Stevens
Part 3: Resistance and Alternatives
11 The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach / David Goutor
12 Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta 1999–2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson
13 The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can be Done? / Tom McDowell, Sune Sandbeck, and Bryan Evans
List of Contributors; Index
