| Description |
xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An economy that works for workers / Alice O'Connor -- What can labor organizations do for U.S. workers when unions can't do what unions used to do? / Richard B. Freeman -- Connecting the disconnected : improving education and employment outcomes among disadvantaged youth / Peter B. Edelman and Harry J. Holzer -- Mending the fissured workplace / David Weil -- Holding the line on workplace standards : what works for immigrant workers (and what doesn't)? / Jennifer Gordon -- Career ladders in the low-wage labor market / Paul Osterman -- Employment subsidies to firms and workers : key distinctions between the effects of the work opportunity tax credit and the earned income tax credit / Sarah Hamersma -- Living wages, minimum wages, and low-wage workers / Stephanie Luce -- Improving low-income workers' access to unemployment insurance / Jeffrey B. Wenger -- Can the Affordable Care Act reverse three decades of declining health insurance coverage for low-wage workers? / John Schmitt -- Low-wage workers and paid family leave : the California experience / Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum. |
| Subject |
Unskilled labor -- United States.
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Unskilled labor. |
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United States. |
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Working poor -- United States.
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Working poor. |
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Minimum wage -- United States.
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Minimum wage. |
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Labor policy -- United States.
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Labor policy. |
| Added Author |
Luce, Stephanie, editor.
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Luff, Jennifer, editor.
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McCartin, Joseph Anthony, editor.
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Milkman, Ruth, 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
0871545713 (alkaline paper) |
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1610448197 |
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9780871545718 (alkaline paper) |
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9781610448192 |
| Standard No. |
40023620717 |
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