Fighting for other folks' wages: The logic and illogic of living wage campaigns

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-31

  Freeman, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 13944278851     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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