The ‘living wage’, low pay and in work poverty: Rethinking the relationships
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 practic...
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SAGE Publications
2013
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