Living wages and the 'making work pay' strategy

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-27

  Grover, Chris ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Gender; Poverty; Relief; Work

Indexed keywords

MINIMUM WAGE; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL POLICY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12844255047     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018305048965     Document Type: Article

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