Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States

From: Eastern Economic Journal | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Barker, Drucilla K | Copyright information

Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States. By Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power. New York: Routledge, 2002. 258 pp. $90.00, ISBN 0-415-27390-0 (hardcover); $31.95, ISBN 0-415-27391-9 (paper).

This well-written and engaging book will be of interest to professional economists and is clear enough to be understood by the general reader. It offers a history of the gender and race aspects of wage regulation in the U.S.; reveals relation...

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