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==Gendered Analysis== | ==Gendered Analysis== | ||
While the desire to help low wage workers achieve a higher standard of living is an important issue, many economists concentrate on the social issue of gender relations as applicable to the minimum wage.[[Image:Wage-labour.png|frame|right|Graph illustrating unemployment resulting from a wage floor.]] | While the desire to help low wage workers achieve a higher standard of living is an important issue, many economists concentrate on the social issue of gender relations as applicable to the minimum wage. | ||
===The Eugenics of Wage Floors=== | |||
[[Image:Wage-labour.png|frame|right|Graph illustrating unemployment resulting from a wage floor.]] In his 2005 article "Protecting Family and Wage", Tim Leonard posits that the minimum wage can be used as a eugenic device. While it is traditionally thought that minimum wages can help minority groups, Leonard argues that Progressives wished to use market forces to cause disemployment of "undesirable" groups, such as women and racial minorities. A binding wage floor causes lower demand for labor, in turn creating an excess supply - unemployment. Progressives believed that this unemployment would occur in groups they wanted to push out of the work force. [[Minimum Wage Adoption Sources |(Leonard 2005)]]. | |||
====Challenges==== | |||
===Male Breadwinners=== | ===Male Breadwinners=== | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 3 December 2007
Overview | Early Minimum Wages | The FLSA - Reasons and Conflict | Conclusion & References
Gendered Analysis
While the desire to help low wage workers achieve a higher standard of living is an important issue, many economists concentrate on the social issue of gender relations as applicable to the minimum wage.
The Eugenics of Wage Floors
In his 2005 article "Protecting Family and Wage", Tim Leonard posits that the minimum wage can be used as a eugenic device. While it is traditionally thought that minimum wages can help minority groups, Leonard argues that Progressives wished to use market forces to cause disemployment of "undesirable" groups, such as women and racial minorities. A binding wage floor causes lower demand for labor, in turn creating an excess supply - unemployment. Progressives believed that this unemployment would occur in groups they wanted to push out of the work force. (Leonard 2005).
Challenges
Male Breadwinners
Role of Unions
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
Role of Voter Ideology
Role of the Southern Political System
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