Low-wage work in the wealthy world /
"Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World builds on an earlier Russell Sage Foundation study (Low-Wage America) to compare the plight of low-wage workers in the United States to five European countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom - where wage supports, worker p...
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Low pay, working conditions, and living standards / Geoff Mason and Wiemer Salverda
- Industrial relations, legal regulations, and wage setting / Gerhard Bosch, Ken Mayhew, and Jerome Gautie
- The impact of institutions on the supply side of the low-wage labor market / Jerome Gautie ... [et al.]
- Institutions, firms, and the quality of jobs in low-wage labor markets / Eileen Appelbaum
- Retail jobs in comparative perspective / Francoise Carre ... [et al.]
- Working at the wage floor : hotel room attendants and labor market institutions in Europe and the United States / Achim Vanselow ... [et al.]
- Cleaning and nursing in hospitals : institutional variety and the reshaping of low-wage jobs / Philippe Mehaut ... [et al.]
- Tough meat, hard candy : implications for low-wage work in the food-processing industry / Klaus G. Grunert, Susan James, and Phillip Moss
- Restructuring customer service : labor market institutions and call center workers in Europe and the United States / Caroline Lloyd, Claudia Weinkopf, and Rosemary Batt.