Low pay and the living wage: an international perspective

Prowse, Peter; Fells, Ray; Arrowsmith, James; Parker, Jane; Lopes, Ana Lúcia Magri

doi:10.1108/er-08-2017-0185

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“…See www.humanrightspulse.com/mastercontentblog/labour-rights-violations-in-leicester-garmentfactories-reflect-industry-norms 4. The SLW is set by the Living Wage Foundation and is based on the annual calculation of a Minimum Income Standard that is set in relation to the cost of living (Cunningham et al, 2018;Prowse et al, 2017). At the time of writing, the wage was set at £9 per hour.…”

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Supply chain regulation in Scottish social care: Facilitators and barriers

James

Baluch

Cunningham³

et al. 2021

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Drawing on a study of a Scottish government initiative to ensure the provision of a living wage to social care workers, the article sheds new light on the value of regulating domestic supply chains to enhance labour standards in supplier organisations, and the factors that facilitate and hinder such regulation. The study confirms that supply chains driven by monopsonistic purchasers tend to drive down employment conditions, while indicating that the studied initiative met with a good deal of success due to a combination of the government generated ‘soft’ regulation and support from care providers that reflected both value and pragmatic considerations. It also highlights the contradictory tensions that can arise between policy aspirations and business objectives and suggests that to be effective, initiatives to enhance labour standards in supply chains need to address adverse market dynamics.

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Supply chain regulation in Scottish social care: Facilitators and barriers

James

Baluch

Cunningham³

et al. 2021

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Moral Economy and the Ethics of the Real Living Wage in UK Football Clubs

Dobbins,

Prowse

2024

J Bus Ethics

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Real living wages (RLWs) are an important ethical and moral policy to ensure that employees earn enough to live on. In providing ‘a fair day's pay for a fair day's work’, they set an ethical foundation for liveability. This article explores the ethics and moral economy of the RLW for lower-paid staff in the overlooked economy context of UK professional football, illustrated by a qualitative case study of Luton Town Football Club (LTFC). The article provides theoretical insights grounded in moral economy concepts about how a RLW contributes to a broader common good means of enabling fuller human participation in decent working and living conditions. Applying these concepts using a multi-disciplinary moral economy interpretation offers deeper theoretical contributions than economistic interpretations restricted to mainly technocratic economic distributive issues. LTFC are evidently ethically embedded in a moral economy as a local community club paying a RLW, and part of the overlooked economy. The research also contributes to contemporary debates on ‘Common Good’ HRM regarding the role of living wages in addressing grand common good challenges like inequality and quality of working lives.

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Minimum Wage as a Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from Germany

Bruckmeier

Bruttel

2020

J. Soc. Pol.

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The minimum wage is often considered a social policy instrument that can help reduce both poverty and welfare receipt. The introduction of the statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 provides an interesting case study to analyse not only the potential but also the limitations of minimum wages as an instrument to achieve socially desirable goals such as reduced welfare receipt or poverty. Based on the results of simulation models, descriptive analyses and causal effects studies of the short-term effects, we argue that minimum wages are a rather badly targeted measure when attempting to reduce poverty and welfare receipt.

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Low pay and the living wage: an international perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Supply chain regulation in Scottish social care: Facilitators and barriers

Supply chain regulation in Scottish social care: Facilitators and barriers

Moral Economy and the Ethics of the Real Living Wage in UK Football Clubs

Minimum Wage as a Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from Germany

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