A recent development in addressing the longstanding problem of low pay in the United Kingdom has been the emergence of a social campaign for a ‘living wage’. Using a case study approach this article explores an employer's decision to pay the living wage that, in turn, provided both challenges and opportunities for the unions in their dealings with contractors
This chapter explores the experiences of individual employers across the United Kingdom in voluntari...
Purpose – This article describes how the voluntary Living Wage in the UK is set. It examines how thi...
In May 2012, a campaign started in support of a New Zealand ‘living wage’. This happened in light of...
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses eviden...
The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK that is currently enjoying a renaissance....
The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which ac...
The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK currently enjoying a renaissance. This ar...
As low pay and in-work poverty have proliferated, demands for a higher, ‘living wage’, have gathere...
The success of the contemporary ‘living wage’ movement has been highlighted by the UK government’s d...
The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between...
The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which act...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between...
Living wage campaigns, led by community organisations and trade unions, aim to raise the wages and w...
This paper considers an emerging, highly policy relevant feature of minimum wages, studying what hap...
This chapter explores the experiences of individual employers across the United Kingdom in voluntari...
Purpose – This article describes how the voluntary Living Wage in the UK is set. It examines how thi...
In May 2012, a campaign started in support of a New Zealand ‘living wage’. This happened in light of...
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses eviden...
The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK that is currently enjoying a renaissance....
The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which ac...
The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK currently enjoying a renaissance. This ar...
As low pay and in-work poverty have proliferated, demands for a higher, ‘living wage’, have gathere...
The success of the contemporary ‘living wage’ movement has been highlighted by the UK government’s d...
The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between...
The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which act...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between...
Living wage campaigns, led by community organisations and trade unions, aim to raise the wages and w...
This paper considers an emerging, highly policy relevant feature of minimum wages, studying what hap...
This chapter explores the experiences of individual employers across the United Kingdom in voluntari...
Purpose – This article describes how the voluntary Living Wage in the UK is set. It examines how thi...
In May 2012, a campaign started in support of a New Zealand ‘living wage’. This happened in light of...
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