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Rising up : the fight for living wage work in Canada / edited by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell.

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

Summary:

""Rising Up" traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fall out from Covid-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response, and solutions."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774864367 (hardcover)
Physical Description: x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Resisting low-wage work -- The comparative political economy of low wages -- Labour justice -- Media (mis)representations and the living wage movement -- The emergence of the living wage Movement in Canada's Northern Territories -- Getting by but dreaming of normal -- The living wage and the extremely precarious -- Working for a living, not living for work -- The BC living wage for families campaign -- Challenging the small business ideology in Saskatchewan's living wage debate -- The living wage campaign in Hamilton -- why business-led living wage campaigns fail -- The low-wage economy in the age of neoliberalism.