{"title":"引言:生活工资的挑战","authors":"Shaun Wilson","doi":"10.46692/9781447341192.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Introductory chapter begins with the claim that renewed pressure for higher minimum or living wages has special significance for the Anglo-American social model. The English-speaking liberal welfare states have assertively pushed ‘work first’ social policy through hard-line welfare reform, particularly in Australia, the UK, and US, and the consequence is renewed emphasis on improving low-wage employment as a path to ameliorating inequality. The Introduction further establishes that arguments for living wages go beyond union demands and claims made by socialists—liberals and conservatives have cause to support wage justice. At the same time, living wage movements offer practical beginning points for a major challenge to increasing inequality and should be seen as the most significant alternative redistributive project to the basic income.","PeriodicalId":289478,"journal":{"name":"Living Wages and the Welfare State","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Introduction: the challenge of a living wage\",\"authors\":\"Shaun Wilson\",\"doi\":\"10.46692/9781447341192.002\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"The Introductory chapter begins with the claim that renewed pressure for higher minimum or living wages has special significance for the Anglo-American social model. The English-speaking liberal welfare states have assertively pushed ‘work first’ social policy through hard-line welfare reform, particularly in Australia, the UK, and US, and the consequence is renewed emphasis on improving low-wage employment as a path to ameliorating inequality. The Introduction further establishes that arguments for living wages go beyond union demands and claims made by socialists—liberals and conservatives have cause to support wage justice. At the same time, living wage movements offer practical beginning points for a major challenge to increasing inequality and should be seen as the most significant alternative redistributive project to the basic income.\",\"PeriodicalId\":289478,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Living Wages and the Welfare State\",\"volume\":\"61 1\",\"pages\":\"0\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2021-05-10\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Living Wages and the Welfare State\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447341192.002\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Living Wages and the Welfare State","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447341192.002","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
The Introductory chapter begins with the claim that renewed pressure for higher minimum or living wages has special significance for the Anglo-American social model. The English-speaking liberal welfare states have assertively pushed ‘work first’ social policy through hard-line welfare reform, particularly in Australia, the UK, and US, and the consequence is renewed emphasis on improving low-wage employment as a path to ameliorating inequality. The Introduction further establishes that arguments for living wages go beyond union demands and claims made by socialists—liberals and conservatives have cause to support wage justice. At the same time, living wage movements offer practical beginning points for a major challenge to increasing inequality and should be seen as the most significant alternative redistributive project to the basic income.