Bücher von Shaun Wilson

Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed. Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.

There have been repeated warnings that advanced societies face 'the end of work'. Wilson looks first at the theoretical origins and contemporary versions of the 'end of work' scenario before progressing to a staggering critique of the leading thinkers behind this concept. Wilson from ANU, ACT.