Ending poverty as we know it : guaranteeing a right to a job at a living wage / William P. Quigley.
2003
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Author
Title
Ending poverty as we know it : guaranteeing a right to a job at a living wage / William P. Quigley.
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Call Number
HD4975 .Q54 2003
ISBN
1592130321 (alk. paper)
159213033X (pbk. : alk. paper)
159213033X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
vii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)51983332
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I
Introduction
1
Why a Right to a Job at a Living Wage?
3
II
Reeducating Ourselves About What It Means To Be Poor
2
Myths and Facts about Poverty and Work
19
3
Our History Shapes Our Thinking
29
4
Current Official Definition of Poverty
33
5
A New Definition of Poverty
43
III
Poverty and Lack of Work
6
The Extent of Unemployment and Underemployment
55
7
The Cost of Unemployment and Underemployement
65
IV
Work and Poverty
8
The Working Poor
71
9
Low-Wage Work
85
V
A Constitutional Right to a Job at a Living Wage
10
A Constitutional Amendment
93
11
Support for a Right to a Job
100
12
Support for a Right to Living Wages
117
13
How Might a Constitutional Amendment Work?
137
14
The Way to End Poverty as We Know It
159
Notes
165
Suggested Web Resources for Further Reading
223
Selected Bibliography
225
Index
241