Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response. Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. In the 1970s, the balance of political and economic power began to shift in favour of business, as trade unions weakened and governments failed to check corporate power. By the 2000s, austerity measures had dismantled social spending, facilitating the growth of low-waged employment. Contributors to this astute collection of essays examine union- and community-based approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media (mis)representations, among other key topics. Offering stimulating debate about living wages and social inequality, Rising Up promotes alternatives to a neoliberalized labour market.

About the Author

Bryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. He is co-editor, with Greg Albo, of Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism; with Stephen McBride, of The Austerity State; and, with Carlo Fanelli, of The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives from Canada's Provinces and Territories. Carlo Fanelli is an assistant professor and coordinator of work and labour studies in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is the author of Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto, and co-editor, with Mark P. Thomas, Leah F. Vosko, and Olena Lyubchenko, of Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Tom McDowell is an instructor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and book review editor for Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research.

Contributors: Harald Bauder, Mohammad Ferdosi, David Goutor, Kendall Hammond, Charity-Ann Hannan, Carol-Anne Hudson, Mary-Dan Johnston, Biko Koenig, Catherine Ludgate, Meg Luxton, Stephen McBride, Patricia McDermott, Sorin Mitrea, Sune Sandbeck, Christine Saulnier, John Shields, Andrew Stevens, A.J. Wilson, and Deva Woodly

Reviews
This is an older, more classical, and well-informed political economy analysis. - T. M. Bateman, St. Thomas University (CHOICE Connect)



Book Information
ISBN 9780774864367
Author Bryan Evans
Format Hardback
Page Count 300
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 580g