Title:
Rising up : the fight for living wage work in Canada
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2021]
Physical Description:
x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780774864367
Abstract:
""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.
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.
Language:
English
