Title page

copyright page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

A note on terminology

Chap 1 - The meaning, origins and development of a living wage

Introduction

Morality, rights and economic sustainability: the evolution of the living wage in thinking and pract

Commentary: what can we learn today from the history of the living wage?

Chap 2 - Contemporary living wages in practice

Living wages around the world

How are living wages being calculated?

How are living wages being advocated and implemented?

Commentary

Chap 3 - The impact of higher wage floors on labour markets

Free markets and market imperfections: economic arguments against and for minimum wages

Wage floors and the labour market: the evidence

Commentary

Chap 4 - Interactions with incomes and social policy

The overlap between low pay and low income

How effectively do higher wage floors secure adequate living standards?

Wage floors and policies to tackle low income

Commentary

Chap 5 - Issues and choices for a sustainable living wage in the twenty-first century

Can the living wage remain true to its brand?

How could the relationship between minimum and living wages develop?

Who are the winners and the losers from living wages?

What will a living wage look like as work transforms?

References

Index