Journal article
The ‘living wage’, low pay and in work poverty: Rethinking the relationships
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The ‘living wage’ is an idea with a long history in the UK currently enjoying a renaissance. This article explores possible reasons for its re-emergence as a policy demand, but argues that thinking of low pay primarily as ‘poverty pay’ caused by employers’ failure to pay a living wage raises practical and conceptual issues that are problematic. It examines to what extent recent attempts to resolve such issues in the UK and elsewhere have succeeded, and concludes by suggesting that alternative...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Critical Social Policy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 46-65
- Publication date:
- 2013-06-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1461-703X
- ISSN:
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0261-0183
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:930912
- UUID:
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uuid:7be096de-bc09-4cbf-b414-48bb0822ba95
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pubs:930912
- Source identifiers:
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930912
- Deposit date:
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2018-10-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Bennett
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2012
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