TY - JOUR
T1 - Living wage considerations in the right-to-work state of South Carolina
AU - Kingsolver, Ann
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - In a time of economic crisis, when unemployment and food insecurity have increased dramatically in South Carolina, is a living wage movement more or less likely? This article does not investigate this question ethnographically, but discusses the conditions for a living wage movement in this southern U.S. state, including the right-to-work legislation and logics that frame understandings and policies regarding employment and economic well-being in the state. Interpretive and political economic anthropological perspectives are employed in this analysis.
AB - In a time of economic crisis, when unemployment and food insecurity have increased dramatically in South Carolina, is a living wage movement more or less likely? This article does not investigate this question ethnographically, but discusses the conditions for a living wage movement in this southern U.S. state, including the right-to-work legislation and logics that frame understandings and policies regarding employment and economic well-being in the state. Interpretive and political economic anthropological perspectives are employed in this analysis.
KW - Living wage
KW - Neoliberal logic
KW - Right to work
KW - South carolina
KW - Unemployment
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2010.01039.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2010.01039.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953279934
SN - 0883-024X
VL - 31
SP - 30
EP - 41
JO - Anthropology of Work Review
JF - Anthropology of Work Review
IS - 1
ER -
