The ‘living wage’, low pay and in work poverty: Rethinking the relationships
The ‘living wage’, low pay and in work poverty: Rethinking the relationships
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“生活工资”、低工资和工作贫困：重新思考这些关系
DOI：
10.1177/0261018313481564
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
F. Bennett
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作者：
F. Bennett
“生活工资”是一个在英国有着悠久历史的想法，目前正在复兴。本文探讨了其作为政策需求重新出现的可能原因，但认为将低工资主要视为雇主未能支付生活工资而导致的“贫困工资”会引发实际和概念上的问题。它研究了英国和其他地方最近解决此类问题的尝试在多大程度上取得了成功，并得出结论，建议需要采用替代方法来分析和解决与生活工资、低工资和工作贫困相关的两个关键问题。
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 ways of analysing and addressing the two key issues associated with the living wage, low pay and in work poverty, are required.