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OverviewCanada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response. Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. In the 1970s, the balance of political and economic power began to shift in favour of business, as trade unions weakened and governments failed to check corporate power. By the 2000s, austerity measures had dismantled social spending, facilitating the growth of low-waged employment. Contributors to this astute collection of essays examine union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Offering stimulating debate about living wages and social inequality, Rising Up promotes alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bryan Evans , Carlo Fanelli , Tom McDowellPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press ISBN: 9780774864374ISBN 10: 0774864370 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 01 November 2021 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"1 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"ReviewsThe living wage movement is shifting the goalposts of socially acceptable employment practice. Thanks to the determined efforts of living wage advocates and researchers, employers face growing social and regulatory pressure to pay workers enough to lead healthy, balanced lives. This rich and timely collection will be an indispensable reference for those striving to win a living wage for all workers: it shows what's worked, what hasn't worked, and how the immense potential of this movement to transform employment can be fulfilled.--Jim Stanford, Centre for Future Work Author InformationBryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. He is co-editor, with Greg Albo, of Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism; with Stephen McBride, of The Austerity State; and, with Carlo Fanelli, of The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives from Canada’s Provinces and Territories. Carlo Fanelli is an assistant professor and coordinator of work and labour studies in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is the author of Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto, and co-editor, with Mark P. Thomas, Leah F. Vosko, and Olena Lyubchenko, of Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Tom McDowell is an instructor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and book review editor for Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. Contributors: Harald Bauder, Mohammad Ferdosi, David Goutor, Kendall Hammond, Charity-Ann Hannan, Carol-Anne Hudson, Mary-Dan Johnston, Biko Koenig, Catherine Ludgate, Meg Luxton, Stephen McBride, Patricia McDermott, Sorin Mitrea, Sune Sandbeck, Christine Saulnier, John Shields, Andrew Stevens, A.J. Wilson, and Deva Woodly Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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