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Title:
What works for workers? : public policies and innovative strategies for low-wage workers / Stephanie Luce, Jennifer Luff, Joseph A. McCartin, and Ruth Milkman, editors.
Publisher:
Russell Sage Foundation,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Unskilled labor--United States.
Working poor--United States.
Minimum wage--United States.
Labor policy--United States.
Other Authors:
Luce, Stephanie, editor of compilation.
Luff, Jennifer, editor of compilation.
McCartin, Joseph Anthony, editor of compilation.
Milkman, Ruth, 1954- editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An economy that works for workers -- What can labor organizations do for U.S. workers when unions can't do what unions used to do? -- Connecting the disconnected : improving education and employment outcomes among disadvantaged youth -- Mending the fissured workplace -- Holding the line on workplace standards : what works for immigrant workers (and what doesn't)? -- Career ladders in the low-wage labor market -- Employment subsidies to firms and workers : key distinctions between the effects of the work opportunity tax credit and the earned income tax credit -- Living wages, minimum wages, and low-wage workers -- Improving low-income workers' access to unemployment insurance -- Can the Affordable Care Act reverse three decades of declining health insurance coverage for low-wage workers? -- Low-wage workers and paid family leave : the California experience.
ISBN:
0871545713 (alk. paper)
9780871545718 (alk. paper)
LCCN:
2013030555
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

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