Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages 3
6. The “Standard” Employment Relationship: Low-Wage Work
7. The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages 29
8. Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labour Movement 50
9. Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement 69
10. The Fight for Living Wages in Canada
11. The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada’s Northern Territories 97
12. Getting By but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction 115
13. The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of “Illegalized” Migrant Workers 134
14. Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes 153
15. The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building 171
16. Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan’s Living Wage Debate 187
17. Resistance and Alternatives
18. The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach 211
19. Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta, 1999–2009 230
20. The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can Be Done? 251
21. Contributors 279
22. Index 283